hemisphere quotes

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

- Robert Edwin Peary
  Description of crossing and then passing the Pole. The North Pole (published1910).

In the western hemisphere, the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

-Theodore Roosevelt
  Message to Congress, 6 Dec.

The most beautiful sight in orbit†is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals whichgo out almost ina hemisphere† It'sreally a spectacular sight.

- Russell Schweikart
The NextWhole Earth Catalog.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. 788

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.