Earth Quotes · Page 83

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

— Calvin Miller

“Wow! So beautiful. Which star? Planet, not star; It WAS called Earth.”

— Vikrmn

“There are heavens in earth and that is soughed deep beneath your heart.”

— Fahad Basheer

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

— Oscar Wilde

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

— Nick Hornby

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

— Laura Gilpin

“The Sun was smiling hundred years ago and the sun is laughing today.”

— Santosh Kalwar

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

— Plato

In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down…

— Isak Dinesen

I didn't have to fight. I chose to fight. I believe God put me on this Earth to be able to do…

— Michael Chandler

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly…

— Annie Dillard

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

— Richard Aldington

“The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.”

— Steven Magee

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we…

— Abraham Lincoln

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment…

— Jim Clyburn

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation…

— J. G. Holland

I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and…

— Elizabeth Marie Pope

“A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to…

— John McPhee

Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional,…

— Anonymous

You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while…

— Michael Scheuer

When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the…

— Friedrich Schiller

I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I'm this high and…

— Kierra Kiki Sheard

Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. [It]…

— Gary Zukav

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

— William Cowper

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

— Jane Goodall

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

— Bayard Taylor

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

— Anne Lamott

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

— Duke of Wellington

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

— Ray Davies

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

— Alice Walker

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

— Woody Allen

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

— Henry Ford

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.

— Eric Metaxas

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

— Homer

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

— Hans Kung

The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

— Thomas de Quincey

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

— Wilkie Collins