Earth Quotes

• Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Earth
  • Funny

• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  

  Anatoly Berezovoy
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Singing

• It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • World
  • God
  • Country

• Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Hope
  • Growing
  • Humanity

• My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Dream
  • Earth
  • Moon

• No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Earth
  • Socialise
  • American Black Woman

• No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Prayers

• Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

  

  C. D. Darlington
  • Power
  • Earth

• The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Earth
  • Illusion
  • Deterrent

• In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Philosophy
  • Forces
  • Taoist

• The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • People
  • Earth

• Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Knowledge
  • Undiscovered

• The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Superman

• Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Rain
  • Names
  • Dust

• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Earth
  • Circle
  • Heavens

• The world is yet in its infancy; the gracious designs of God are yet hardly developed. Glorious things are spoken of Zion, the city of our God. She is yet to triumph and become the joy and glory of the whole earth.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • World
  • God
  • She

• By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Anchor

• What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Earth
  • Mystery
  • Birth

• If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Interest
  • Mankind
  • Islam

• Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Long
  • Age
  • Past

• It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Blue

• There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and there are no problems.' If your self worth is based on what other people think of you, you're in trouble. My self worth is not based on them. My self worth is based on my faith, how I treat others, what I'm doing right for this program and these kids and this coaching staff. Other than that, I understand you're not going to please everybody.

  

  Chan Gailey
  • People
  • Problem
  • Trouble

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