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Earth Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies,…
- Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's…
- What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
- I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
- We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
- In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
- When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up…
- Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do…
- Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will…
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't…
- We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
- The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,…
- The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
- There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
- I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
- It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is…
- The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
- Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed…
- The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so…
- If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited…
- America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact…
- We're here on Earth to fart around
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