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Earth Quotes by Herman Melville
- All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily…
- All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of…
- Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.…
- for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
- I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other…
- Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest…
- The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that…
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