Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Thomas Carlyle

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• 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
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• 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

• 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
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Always

• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • People
  • Men
  • Real

• 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
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Morning

• 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
  • Earth
  • Land
  • Presence

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Earth
  • City

• The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Earth

• What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Long
  • Political
  • Earth

• With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Earth
  • Morning

• No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • People
  • Music
  • Earth

• Right now, our mother -- our mother -- all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. You can help us win the battle to clean up our air, our water, our land, to protect our forests, our oceans and our wildlife.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • She
  • Kids

• Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Great
  • May
  • Power

• I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Writing
  • Age

• I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,And long enough to see some change.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Long
  • Live
  • Light

• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Civil
  • Widow
  • Aphorism

• Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Earth
  • Crown
  • Thorns