Earth Quotes

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

You belong to the earth and the earth is hard.

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

I define sexy as a real salt-of-the-earth woman who knows who she is, who feels strong and powerful.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15 years will decide the future of biodiversity on Earth.

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

I just want people to understand have fun, enjoy your time, enjoy your time on this Earth.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.