Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
~By George Crumb ~
Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
~By Martha Griffiths ~
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
~By Richard Bach ~
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
~By Henry Beston ~
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
~By John Lubbock ~
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
~By Robert Fripp ~
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
~By David Hare ~
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
~By Taslima Nasrin ~
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
~By Nicholas Mosley ~
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.
~By Ashley Olsen ~
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
~By Edith Piaf ~
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
~By Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ~
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
~By Edith Piaf ~
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
~By Peter Jennings ~
In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
~By Joichi Ito ~
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
~By Ilya Ehrenburg ~
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
~By Daniel Webster ~
The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
~By Samuel Adams ~
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
~By Barbara Walters ~
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
~By Orlando Jones ~
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
~By Richie Benaud ~
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
~By George Soros ~
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
~By Elias Hicks ~
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
~By Billie Holiday ~
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
~By Michelangelo ~
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
~By Paracelsus ~
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
~By James Irwin ~
The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.
~By Henry Beston ~
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
~By Edward Steichen ~
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
~By Maxim Gorky ~
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
~By Tina Yothers ~
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
~By Bill Watterson ~
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
~By King George V ~
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
~By James Smithson ~
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
~By Edwin Markham ~
You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
~By Patricia Sun ~
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~By Samuel Adams ~
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
~By Wolfman Jack ~
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
~By Ellen G. White ~
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
~By Chanakya ~
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
~By Phil Donahue ~
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
~By Josiah Strong ~
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
~By Channing Pollock ~
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
~By Michael Ledeen ~
If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.
~By Jonathan Frakes ~
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
~By George Chapman ~
Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
~By Martin Bormann ~
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
~By Walter Reisch ~
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
~By Henry James ~
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
~By David Douglass ~
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
~By Erica Jong ~
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
~By Elias Canetti ~
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
~By Jay Inslee ~
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?
~By Dorothy L. Nolte ~
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
~By Stewart Udall ~
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
~By John Donne ~
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
~By Bill Lee ~
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
~By James Lovelock ~
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~By Grantland Rice ~
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