Earth Quotes
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And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
William Penn
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At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.
Angie Thomas
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Arthur Murphy
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I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'
Bill Keller
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I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
Scott Spencer
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Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
Satish Kumar
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It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy Adams
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
Jonathan Miller
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
Humphrey Bogart
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Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.
Brigham Young
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It's quite possible there's as much lightning on Venus as on Earth.
David Grinspoon