Earth Quotes
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A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.
Marcel Proust
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Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
Sarah Vowell
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.
Elijah
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If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.
Terence McKenna
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But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise. Let it end with hope.
Beth Revis
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Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
Nic Pizzolatto
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Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.
Francis Chan
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People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.
Nikhil Advani
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The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there.
Martin Heidegger
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For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is.
Wayne Watson
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I would love to go to space, take a view of the Earth, see the stars without the mask or the atmosphere. I think that would be an absolutely amazing experience.
Sunil Nagaraj
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My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.
Jesse Livermore
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Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Ray Bradbury
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By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
Buzz Aldrin
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There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.
William Graham Sumner
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His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth
William Shakespeare
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There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
Al-Shafi‘i
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
Georges Cuvier
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....
Robert Frost
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The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
Moshe Sharett
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Homer
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By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'
Walter Karp
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We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
Russell Banks