Earth Quotes
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It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
William Shakespeare
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
William James
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Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.
Duane G. Carey
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.
Wendy Rose
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Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
William Shakespeare
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
William Hazlitt
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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.
E. O. Wilson
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At the end of the day, I love eating duck. It's the best thing you can eat on this earth, especially grilled with jalapenos and cream cheese.
Jase Robertson
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
Nadine Gordimer
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The living prophet and the apostles today are as lighthouses in the storm. Steer towards the light of the restored gospel and the inspired teachings of those who represent the Lord on earth.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.
David Banner
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Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.
Galileo Galilei
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The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
C. S. Lewis
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All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
John Podhoretz
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Madonna is untouchable. She is absolutely lovely. On a personal level, she's everything you would expect. She's so down to earth.
Matthew Williamson
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These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.
Benjamin W. Chidlaw
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson
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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
James Weldon Johnson
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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness.
Christine McCormick Day
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No second Johannesburg is needed up on the earth.One is enough.
Alan Paton
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Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
Martin Luther