Earth Quotes - page 4

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. (George Sand)
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. View quote
Clarence Darrow
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. View quote
Joseph Smith
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. View quote
Eric Hoffer
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. (Toni Morrison)
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. View quote
Jean Paul
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. View quote
Walt Whitman
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. View quote
Joseph Conrad
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. View quote
Albert Einstein
Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one. View quote
Edward Abbey
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. View quote
Vitruvius
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow. View quote
Vitruvius
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. (Peter Zumthor)
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. View quote
Betty Smith
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. View quote
Bill Cosby
There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling. View quote
Zoe Saldana
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it. View quote
Alton Brown
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