Earth Quotes
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That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
James Gleick
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
Martha Beck
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Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
Martin Luther
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare
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If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
Yasmin Mogahed
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O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.
Bahá'u'lláh
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'Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality,' said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. 'Here's one,' said the Master. 'When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.'
Anthony de Mello
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The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
Y. C. James Yen
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Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.
Haris Pasovic
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There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.
John Ridley
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I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell
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I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.
Donald Miller
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Our planet is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever get to know them. They say these creatures are so intelligent. They may disappear from the face of the Earth before we know them, and that is a great tragedy.
Loretta Swit
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We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
Charles Glover Barkla
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If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.
Johannes Kepler
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I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.
Queen Noor of Jordan
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Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.
Vladimir Putin
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An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.
Nalini Singh
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My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.
Courtney Love