Duke of Wellington Quotes

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

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• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Leader

• All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Government
  • Army
  • Taxes

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
  • May
  • Earth

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Used

• If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Earth
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• 'You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die.' 'I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision.' ... 'The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger,' Okonkwo said. 'A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm.'

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Earth

• Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Earth
  • Creatures
  • Spirits

• I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Good
  • Important
  • Women

• Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

  

  Duke of Wellington
  • Earth
  • Army