Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
~By Karl Kraus ~
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 ~
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
~By Julien Green ~
A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
~By James Lovelock ~
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
~By Barney Oliver ~
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
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.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
~By Johann G. Seume ~
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.
~By Norman Cousins ~
You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
~By Patti Davis ~
The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.
~By Henry Beston ~
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
~By Benny Hinn ~
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
~By Duke of Wellington ~
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
~By Abdallah II ~
The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
~By Penelope Keith ~
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
~By Steven Brust ~
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
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 ~
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
~By Edvard Munch ~
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
~By Peter Jennings ~
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.
~By Margaret Turnbull ~
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~By John Keats ~
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~By Buddha ~
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
~By Herman Kahn ~
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
~By Michelangelo ~
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
~By Charles Morgan ~
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
~By Countee Cullen ~
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
~By Jacqueline du Pre ~
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
~By Karl Popper ~
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.
~By Jeff Rich ~
Don't you see what's at stake here? 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 ~
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
~By James Lovelock ~
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
~By Virgil ~
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
~By Jules Verne ~
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
~By C. S. Forester ~
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
~By Bell Hooks ~
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
~By Gary Coleman ~
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
~By Laurel Clark ~
In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.
~By Tony Danza ~
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
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 ~
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
~By Stendhal ~
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
~By James Randolph Adams ~
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.
~By Val Guest ~
The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
~By Sally Ride ~
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
~By Elizabeth Smart ~
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
~By Brian Walker ~
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
~By Pericles ~
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
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 ~
The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.
~By David M. Brown ~
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
~By Max Muller ~
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
~By Don Marquis ~
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
~By Meryl Streep ~
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
~By Carl Sagan ~
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
~By Billie Jean King ~
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
I see Earth! It is so beautiful!
~By Yuri Gagarin ~
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
~By Ilya Ehrenburg ~
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
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