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  • Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. -- Georg Buchner
  • Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position. -- Billy Corgan
  • The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell
  • The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. -- John Aubrey
  • I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image. -- Umberto Guidoni
  • Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. -- Lactantius
  • When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. -- John Buchan
  • We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. -- Carolyn Porco
  • The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today, -- Carolyn Porco
  • I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings. -- Karen Russell
  • Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn. -- Phil Plait
  • Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair. -- John Keats
  • During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens. -- Jimmy Carter
  • On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system. -- Henry Spencer
  • We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. -- Marsilio Ficino
  • The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero. -- Nostradamus
  • I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. -- Jared Leto
  • "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up." -- Arthur Porges
  • Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth. -- Michio Kaku
  • Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system. -- Carolyn Porco
  • Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn. -- Stevie Wonder
  • Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die! -- Craig Benzine
  • Saturn doesn't ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real. -- Steven Forrest
  • The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for. -- Randy Savage
  • We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. -- David Mitchell
  • There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children. -- Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
  • My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn -- Naoko Takeuchi
  • I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays. -- Walter Benjamin
  • I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain. -- Paula Cole
  • Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled. -- Homer
  • Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. -- Omar Khayyam
  • The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, Â? the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting. -- Frederick Lenz
  • I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them. -- Adam Young
  • The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth. -- William Irwin Thompson
  • The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling Earth until the Sun turns into a Red Giant, about five billion years from now. -- Trevor Paglen
  • Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary. -- Herman Melville
  • I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place if people understood about the rings of Saturn; I just think he finds physics extremely interesting. It brings him joy, and he wants to spread the love. I feel the same about economics. -- Tim Harford
  • It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon. -- David Weber
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