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Earth Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no…
- It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the…
- It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
- The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled…
- The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
- In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from…
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,…
- We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
- The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -…
- The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under…
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
- And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
- I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men…
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