Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. Napoleon Bonaparte
Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. Robinson Jeffers
You should feel what it is like to pleasure a falcon. You lock talons with her in the sky and do it while you both are falling like meteors. You would like it; they never complain if you come too fast. Christopher Moore (author)
Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away. Robert Hall
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. Ernestine Rose
Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted. Napoleon Bonaparte