Earth Quotes
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The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
Polly Toynbee
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People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other.
Allegra Goodman
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Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
William Cowper
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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
William Herschel
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I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged.
Ian Cohen
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The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.
Martin Luther
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
William Hazlitt
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I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.
Edgar Morin
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When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.
Roberto Clemente
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No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.
Ralph Stanley
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I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.
Julia Roberts
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Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
Caroline Norton
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I'm not superman who saves both Earth and the girl.
Kang Jae-Won
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It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
Leo Kottke
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Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.
Ken Robinson
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I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Alexey Leonov
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I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.
Alex Grey
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I—What on earth just happened?” “Well, nothing on Earth, obviously.
Kiersten White
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Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
William Shakespeare
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I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.
Elizabeth Warren
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
Willa Cather
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Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Butch Hancock