Earth Quotes

• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

  

  Charles Morgan
  • Hand
  • Moments
  • Wine

• Africa is the one place on earth where Prince Harry can be truly himself. He describes Botswana as his 'second home,' but this magical country is even more than that - it is his haven, his safe harbour.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Country
  • Home
  • Prince

• I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Gingerbread

• Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

  

  Hafez
  • Time
  • Love
  • Sun

• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Control
  • Powerful

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Heaven

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Powerful
  • For Her

• I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Giving
  • Baby
  • Addiction

• Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Miracle

• The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again;The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Up
  • Rain
  • Drinking

• You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Poverty
  • Blessed

• If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Talk
  • Understood

• If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Live
  • May
  • Joy

• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Find

• That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

  

  Archimedes
  • Earth
  • Perimeter
  • Stadia

• We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Earth
  • Respect

• The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Believe
  • Women

• I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Dark
  • Winter
  • Loss

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