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Earth Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely…
- As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough…
- Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every…
- Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
- Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly…
- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On…
- We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The…
- On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying…
- But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
- If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward…
- We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by…
- A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
- The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
- [Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a…
- For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven,…
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