Earth Quotes

• Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that’s been amputated.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Life
  • Christmas
  • Remembered

• In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • School
  • America
  • Earth

• A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Praise

• Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?

  

  Will Self
  • Earth
  • Universe

• We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Earth
  • Pleasure
  • Realizing

• Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Body
  • Dies
  • Return

• We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth

• If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Earth
  • Feels

• My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

  

  George Washington
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wish

• Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Married

• Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Earth
  • Fame
  • Canopies

• We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Earth
  • Space

• As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Earth
  • Technology

• We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)

  

  Brigham Young
  • School
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Earth
  • Way
  • Fairs

• We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Past
  • Wonder

• It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Earth
  • Peace

• Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

  

  Michelle Fairley
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Care

• I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Long
  • Age
  • Nice

• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Common
  • Reverence
  • Primitive

• I'm the audience's representative on earth.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Earth
  • Audience
  • Representatives

• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Heaven
  • Virtue
  • Paid

• I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Risk

• The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

  

  Sidney Altman
  • Earth
  • Stage
  • Origin

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