Alan Weisman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
-
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
-
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.
-
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
-
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
-
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
-
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
-
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
-
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.
-
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
-
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.
-
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
-
I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.
-
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.
-
One of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.
-
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
-
Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
-
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
-
The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the Holy Ghost. The power can come upon a person before baptism; it is the convincing witness that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer.
-
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
-
He knew nothing accurately about any subject in the world, but he could clothe his ignorance in pontifical garments and give his confusion the accents of authority. He had a remarkable flair for discerning and elaborating the tiny quantum of popular knowledge on any matter.
-
Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.
