The Earth Quotes

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

The geeks shall inherit the earth.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One

How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth.