William Graham Sumner Quotes
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.William Graham Sumner
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
Eden Ahbez -
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
E. O. Wilson -
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I've got to win every race.
Dale Earnhardt -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
Usain Bolt -
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
J. Carter Brown -
By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
Adam Dell -
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver -
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
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor Vinge -
Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
Damon Hill -
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 powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch -
If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
Macaulay Culkin -
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
Daley Thompson
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The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.
Jim Lovell -
We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.
Catherine Crook de Camp -
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Sargent Shriver -
It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.
Christie Hefner -
I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
Ashton Eaton -
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
William Graham Sumner