Earth Quotes - page 2

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. (Lafcadio Hearn)
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. View quote
Voltaire
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. View quote
Josh Billings
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. View quote
Euripides
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. (Bill Cosby)
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. View quote
John Updike
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. View quote
David O. McKay
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. View quote
John Adams
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. View quote
Thomas Paine
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. (Henry David Thoreau)
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. View quote
George Eliot
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. View quote
Ayn Rand
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. View quote
Norman Cousins
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! View quote
Petrarch
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