Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
~By Will Carleton ~
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
~By Sylvia Earle ~
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
~By Robert Browning ~
The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.
~By Jon Porter ~
Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
~By Jack Kilby ~
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
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 ~
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
~By John Buchan ~
I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.
~By Robert Crippen ~
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 ~
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
~By George Sand ~
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 ~
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
~By Anna Freud ~
Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants.
~By Yuri Andropov ~
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
~By Robert Crippen ~
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
~By David Horowitz ~
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
~By John Jay ~
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
~By Stendhal ~
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
~By Henry Vaughan ~
You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
~By Patricia Sun ~
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
~By Terence McKenna ~
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 ~
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
~By Aeschylus ~
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.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
~By Victor Hugo ~
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
~By Allen Johnson ~
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
~By Neil Young ~
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
~By Daniel Webster ~
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
~By Diana Cooper ~
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
~By John Breaux ~
I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
~By Mohamed Al-Fayed ~
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
~By E. T. A. Hoffmann ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
~By Georges Cuvier ~
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
~By Wilfred Grenfell ~
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
~By Ethel Waters ~
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
~By James Harrington ~
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
~By Lizzy Caplan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
~By Arthur Schwartz ~
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
~By John Grierson ~
I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
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 ~
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
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.
~By Alton Brown ~
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
~By Dennis Banks ~
The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
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 ~
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
~By Langston Hughes ~
What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
~By Brad Sherman ~
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
~By Otto Schily ~
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
~By Jim Fowler ~
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
~By Ayn Rand ~
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
~By Malcom X ~
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
~By Kenneth Williams ~
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!
~By Casper Van Dien ~
I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!
~By John Aspinall ~
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
~By Lu Hsun ~
I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
~By Larry Holmes ~
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
~By James Lovelock ~
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
~By John Lithgow ~
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
~By Randy Newman ~
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