Earth Quotes

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

The temple was a place of learning for the Savior when He was on the earth; it was very much a part of His life. Temple blessings are available once again in our day.

When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.

Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.

It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to represent that light.

How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.

The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.

I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.

At the end of the day, I love eating duck. It's the best thing you can eat on this earth, especially grilled with jalapenos and cream cheese.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.