Barack Obama Quotes

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• 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.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• 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

• If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Iran

• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

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

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• 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

• What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

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

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• 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

• 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
  • May
  • Earth
  • Explore

• 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

• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Respect

• 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

• With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Oil
  • Other
  • Trading

• We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Best

• With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Study
  • Creative

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

  

  Ashley Olsen
  • Success
  • Earth

• My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Earth
  • Dad
  • Proud

• The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • Earth
  • Kings

• 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

• One of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Earth
  • Sunset