--- title: "9 Hold Earth Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Hold Earth quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Hold Earth sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/pope-leo-xiii-9226_almighty_we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god_56206.png" --- > [We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-leo-xiii/we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god-almighty/) [Pope Leo XIII](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-leo-xiii/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/pope-leo-xiii-9226_almighty_we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god_56206.png) > [Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-denes/anything-important-has-to-be-almost-invisible-and-underrated-so-the/) [Agnes Denes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-denes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf8/agnes-denes-20682_earth_anything-important-has-to-be-almost-invi_1547934.jpg) > [“Give me your hand, a human hand, so that you can hold me to the earth with it, for whirling veins of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-g-jung/give-me-your-hand-a-human-hand-so-that-you-can-hold-me-to-the-earth/) [C.G. Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-g-jung/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/c-g-jung-2163_hand_give-me-your-hand-a-human-hand-so-that-y_218147.jpg) > [“I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitney-barbetti/i-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-his-gravity-to-hold-him-on-this-earth/) [Whitney Barbetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitney-barbetti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/whitney-barbetti-33473_death_i-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-his-gravit_1029947.jpg) > [Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-frederic-amiel/unconsciousness-spontaneity-instinct-hold-us-to-the-earth-and-dictate/) [Henri Frederic Amiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-frederic-amiel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4a/henri-frederic-amiel-1276_earth_unconsciousness-spontaneity-instinct-hol_1545422.png) > [No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-thatcher/no-generation-has-a-free-hold-on-this-earth-all-we-have-is-a-life/) [Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-thatcher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/margaret-thatcher-463_conservative_no-generation-has-a-free-hold-on-this-ea_765721.jpg) > [Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lu-xun/let-those-who-hanker-after-the-past-return-to-the-past-let-those-who/) [Lu Xun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lu-xun/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/lu-xun-12813_body_let-those-who-hanker-after-the-past-retu_2125614.jpg) > [You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-bank/you-will-say-good-bye-for-all-the-right-reasons-you-re-tired-of/) [Melissa Bank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-bank/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bb/melissa-bank-7849_apocalypse_you-will-say-good-bye-for-all-the-right_583886.png) > [He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-faulkner/he-made-the-earth-first-and-peopled-it-with-dumb-creatures-and-then/) [William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-faulkner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/william-faulkner-306_animal_he-made-the-earth-first-and-peopled-it-w_2194999.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hold-earth/#itemlist", "name": "Hold Earth Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pope Leo XIII" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-leo-xiii/we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god-almighty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/pope-leo-xiii-9226_almighty_we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god_56206.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/pope-leo-xiii-9226_almighty_we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god_56206.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/pope-leo-xiii-9226_almighty_we-hold-upon-this-earth-the-place-of-god_56206.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” — Pope Leo XIII", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Anything important has to be almost invisible. 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