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Earth Quotes by Victor Hugo
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and…
- Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
- In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be…
- And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old…
- Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a…
- Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate…
- I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go…
- Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that…
- Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the…
- Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
- And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
- The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
- Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present…
- What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
- So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
- Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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