Earth Quotes · Page 123

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

— J. C. Ryle

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

— Charles Spurgeon

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.

— Janine Benyus

By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.

— Fulgentius of Cartagena

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

— George Chapman

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment...

— Nhat Hanh

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born…

— Al Gore

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey…

— Alan Chadwick

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and…

— Barack Obama

I expect to see a flat disk up there. I don't have an agenda. If it's a round Earth or a ball,…

— Mike Hughes

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no…

— Timothy Keller

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.…

— Anthony Trollope

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth,…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers…

— Russell Means

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling…

— Jack Kornfield

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they…

— John Connolly

We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in…

— Maximus the Confessor

From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life…

— Martin Rees

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was…

— Haruki Murakami

We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds,…

— Ian McHarg

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center…

— Michael Lewis

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

— Jimmy Carter

I may be one of the very few people on earth that have won a championship in everything they've ever done.

— Mark Henry

“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails”

— Steve Aylett

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

— Jerry Reed

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.

— Melissa McCarthy

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

— Madame de Stael

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

— George W. Bush

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

— Evangeline Lilly

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

— Donald Trump

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

— Dan Fogelberg

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

— Lawrence M. Krauss

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark…

— Mircea Eliade

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

— Joseph Conrad

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

— St. Jerome