Earth Quotes

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."

We were put on this earth to make things.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.