Earth Quotes · Page 43

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

— David Hare

The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.

— Anonymous

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

— Dalai Lama

Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.

— Mabel

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

— Black Elk

It's in God's hands when we come on this earth and when we leave.

— Bappi Lahiri

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

— Carl Sandburg

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a…

— Darren Shan

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned…

— Ann Aguirre

“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to…

— Bridget Asher

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

— Robert Treat Paine

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the…

— George Berkeley

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried…

— Johannes Kepler

Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's…

— Sylvia Earle

The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who…

— Rumi

Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people…

— David Limbaugh

Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and…

— Galileo Galilei

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she…

— Emma Watson

Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.

— Peggy Whitson

“If I do fall, it'll be the earth that dies on impact.”

— Jonas Samuelle

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

— Wallace Stevens

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

— Anonymous

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

— Ayn Rand

The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.

— David Mitchell

“Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.”

— LeeAnn Taylor

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

— Sidney Buchman

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

— Sappho

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong”

— Lawrence Hill

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

— Gabrielle Roy

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

— Stonewall Jackson

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

— Victor Hugo

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson