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Earth Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
- All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long…
- The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know…
- Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth…
- There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
- But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with…
- And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and…
- All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees…
- There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny…
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