Earth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
-- A. E. Housman -
Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
-- A. E. Housman -
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
-- A. E. Housman -
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
-- Abba Eban -
For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...
-- Abba Hillel Silver -
O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.
-- Abdul Kalam -
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan -
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
-- Abel Ferrara -
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
-- Abraham Cowley -
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
-- Abraham Verghese -
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
-- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni -
We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
-- Adam Braun -
I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.
-- Adam Brown -
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
-- Agnes Denes -
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
-- Al Capone -
The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.
-- Al Gore -
And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.
-- Al Gore -
I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.
-- Al Gore -
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.
-- Al Gore -
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
-- Al Pacino -
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
-- Al-Maʿarri -
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'
-- Alan Bean -
There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
-- Alan Chadwick -
Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
-- Alan Feduccia -
The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
-- Alan Moore -
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
-- Alan Paton -
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
-- Alan Seeger -
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.
-- Alan Shepard -
I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
-- Alan Shepard -
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
-- Alan Shepard -
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.
-- Alan Stern -
Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.
-- Alan Weisman -
But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
-- Alan Weisman -
As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.
-- Albert A. Michelson -
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
-- Albert Camus -
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.
-- Albert Camus -
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
-- Albert Einstein -
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
-- Albert Einstein -
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
-- Albert Einstein -
Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.
-- Albert Einstein -
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
To be a seer is to walk softly on the earth and dream.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
-- Aleister Crowley -
We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth
-- Alex Grey -
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
-- Alex Haley -
Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
-- Alex Steffen -
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
-- Alexander McQueen -
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
-- Alexander Pope -
I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
-- Alexey Leonov -
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
-- Alfred Austin -
The home of the homeless all over the earth.
-- Alfred Billings Street -
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
-- Alfred de Musset -
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
-- Alfred de Musset -
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
-- Alfred Edersheim -
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.
-- Alfred the Great -
You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.
-- Alfred Wainwright -
There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?
-- Ali Sina -
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
-- Alice Walker -
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
-- Alice Walker -
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
-- Alice Walker -
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
-- Alice Walker -
Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
-- Alice Walker -
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
-- Alice Walker -
We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.
-- Alix Kates Shulman -
We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
-- Allen Johnson -
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
-- Allen West -
All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
-- Alvar Aalto -
You belong to the earth and the earth is hard.
-- Amanda Coplin -
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
-- Ambrose -
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
-- Ami Ayalon -
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
-- Ami Ayalon -
Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.
-- Amit Ray -
God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.
-- Amit Ray -
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
-- Amy Lowell
