Earth Quotes
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Since, by your greatness, you Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor, As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.
Cyril Tourneur
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We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
Simone de Beauvoir
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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
Jamie Foxx
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Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.
William Butler Yeats
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Mary Oliver
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There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
Johnny Depp
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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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The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.
Kevin Richardson
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It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.
Sara Teasdale
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I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.
Jaylen Brown
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What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.
Buzz Aldrin
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The sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.
Michael Behe
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Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.
David Ignatius
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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
Edmar Mednis
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Alan Patrick Herbert
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The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
George Akerlof
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No second Johannesburg is needed up on the earth.One is enough.
Alan Paton
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Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!
Yasmin Mogahed
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How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
Pliny the Elder
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
Rita Mae Brown
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If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.
Clive Anderson
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The earth itself is a great big magnet.
Edward Leedskalnin