Earth Quotes
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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 -
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.
William K. Kershner -
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
Ray Bradbury -
It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.
Keanu Reeves -
It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
Elizabeth Lesser -
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair -
Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Ray Bradbury -
The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.
Brennan Manning -
...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
Francis Chan -
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
William Wordsworth -
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 -
We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.
Ray Bradbury
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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
Ray Bradbury -
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Alfred de Musset -
Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.
Estela Portillo Trambley -
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw -
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.
Blake Butler -
He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
Thomas Aquinas
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
Michael Morpurgo -
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
Susan Griffin -
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
Paul Hawken -
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.
Herbert Spencer