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Earth Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
- Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
- Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way…
- She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed…
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
- A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
- We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same…
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
- Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann