Best Earthly Sayings
445 Earthly quotes by 354 unique authors
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Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
— Unknown Author
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As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly…
— Dalai Lama
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If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything…
— Henry Beston
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A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in…
— Andre Bazin
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What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to…
— Charles Stanley
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Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short…
— Hartman Rector, Jr.
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Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
— Tracy Chapman
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Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of…
— Unknown Author
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Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow.…
— Anthony of Padua
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My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders.…
— John the Apostle
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church…
— John of Kronstadt
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We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was…
— Queen Victoria
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with…
— George C. Marshall
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that…
— William Shakespeare
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I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source. I also believe, once…
— Unknown Author
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My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be…
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it…
— James Lane Allen
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are…
— Vikram Seth
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It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled…
— Herman Melville
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God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
— Rick Moody
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