Earth Quotes · Page 96

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

— Neil Armstrong

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

— Sarah Caldwell

All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

— Sheridan Smith

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

— Joseph Hall

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

— Matthew Henry

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black…

— Sappho

The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more…

— Brandy Norwood

The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle…

— William McDonough

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the…

— Bindi Irwin

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based…

— Dan Simmons

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're…

— Charles de Lint

“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable…

— Joseph Guth

In all the people I meet - though some may be governed by the self-centered nature and may not know their potential…

— Peace Pilgrim

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It looked as though they were breathing to some never-ending slow, deep rhythm. They breathed and watched as the world came and…

— Nina George

“The summer I turned eleven, I found out that ghosts are real. Guess it's hard to rest nice and easy in your…

— Kimberley Griffiths Little

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of…

— Tom Holt

I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just…

— Arthur Golden

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

— Anonymous

The largest humanitarian victory we can deliver is by wiping ISIS off the face of the earth.

— Lee Zeldin

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

— Juvenal

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

— Norman Cousins

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

— Jerry Brown

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

— Greg Kinnear

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

— Chris d'Lacey

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

— A. E. Housman

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

— Francis of Assisi

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

— William Brighty Rands

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

— Barack Obama

Most people don't know that I'm down to earth until they meet me.

— Stefflon Don

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

— Mickey Spillane

“And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.”

— Katherine Catmull

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

— Edward Abbey

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

— William James