Ian Mckellen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Fiona Shaw -
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean -
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
Sam Abell -
The world is in motion, as it seems.
Utada Hikaru -
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver
-
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor -
The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
Carl Sagan -
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf -
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch -
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
Nathan Wolfe
-
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe -
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine -
Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
W. E. B. Du Bois
-
'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
Gary Ross -
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
Paulo Coelho -
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
Max Irons -
A hundred thousand men were ledBy one calf near three centuries dead;They followed still his crooked wayAnd lost a hundred years a day;For thus such reverence is lentTo well-established precedent.
Sam Walter Foss -
No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
Ian Mckellen