The Earth Quotes
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.
Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.
We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.
We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth
If a martian were to land on earth now and be told that the best batsman in the world was playing in this match, he would think it was Rahul Dravid and not Sachin Tendulkar.
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
Consider Palin for President? The most powerful job on earth? You don't give the dumb cheerleader the Uzi. That's in the Bible.
Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!
The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
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.
Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.
