Definition of Planet

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Planet

A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

A star, as influencing the fate of a men.

Related Definitions:

About, Absence, An, And, As, Body, By, Celestial, Coma, Comet, Degree, Distinguished, Eccentric, Eccentricity, Fate, From, Having, In, Influencing, Is, It, Less, Men, Moderate, Of, Orbit, See, Solar, Star, Sun, System, The, Which

Planet Quotations

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
Mitch Hedberg

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
Dennis Miller

Planet Translations

planet in Dutch is zwerfster, planeet
planet in German is Planet
planet in Italian is pianeta
planet in Portuguese is planeta
planet in Spanish is planeta

Quotes