Terrestrial Quotes
76 Terrestrial quotes by 67 unique authors
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains…
— Galileo Galilei
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Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to…
— Philip K. Chapman
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The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On…
— John Quincy Adams
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My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic…
— Stephanie Mills
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
— John Muir
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
— Albert Camus
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
— Stephen Hawking
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we…
— Samuel Johnson
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man…
— Jules Verne
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On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the…
— Mark Dunn
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
— H.G. Wells
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Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
— John Muir
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But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to…
— Erich von Däniken
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject…
— Victor Hugo
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We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial…
— Cornel West
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God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating…
— Russell Brand
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow…
— H.G. Wells
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An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might…
— Bertrand Russell
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The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried…
— Jules Verne
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
— Ogden Nash
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I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.
— Gordon Cooper
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If you borrowed my brain for five seconds, youd be like, Dude! Cant handle it, unplug this bastard! "It fires in a way thats maybe…
— Charlie Sheen
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I know why I wrote those songs. I was a fornicator, an adulterer. The celestial will not mix with the terrestrial.
— Al Green
Who Wrote These Terrestrial Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 76 Terrestrial Quotes, led by these top contributors: