Quotes on Earth

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Author: Samuel Adams

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

Author: Eden Ahbez

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Author: Susan Anthony

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Author: Hannah Arendt

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Author: Neil Armstrong

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Author: Neil Armstrong

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Author: Neil Armstrong

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

Author: Armand Assante

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Author: W. Auden

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Author: Norman Augustine

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Author: Norman Augustine

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Author: Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Author: Richard Bach

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

Author: Randy Bachman

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Author: Liberty Bailey

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

Author: John Barrow

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

Author: Samuel Beckett

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Author: George Berkeley

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Author: Daniel Bernoulli

That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

Author: Michael Berryman

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Author: Henry Beston

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

Author: W. Bois

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Author: Christian Bovee

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Author: Tycho Brahe

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Author: David Brower

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Author: Robert Browning

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

Author: William Bryant

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

Author: Sidney Buchman

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Author: Sitting Bull

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Author: Lord Byron

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Author: Michael Caine

I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

Author: Duane Carey

Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.

Author: Duane Carey

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Author: George Chapman

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Author: John Chapman

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

Author: Boozoo Chavis

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Author: Leroy Chiao

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Author: Shirley Chisholm

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

Author: Kate Chopin

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

Author: Laurel Clark

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Author: Arthur Clarke

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

Author: Hugo Claus

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Author: Barry Cornwall

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Author: Jacques Cousteau

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Author: Robert Crippen

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

Author: Robert Crippen

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

Author: Countee Cullen

The earth laughs in flowers.

Author: e. cummings

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Author: George Cuvier

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

Author: Georges Cuvier

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

Author: Billy Cyrus

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

Author: Patti Davis

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

Author: Mike DeWine

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Author: Paul Dirac

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

Author: Marjory Douglas

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Author: Tommy Douglas

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

Author: David Douglass

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

Author: Robert Duncan

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

Author: Sylvia Earle

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Author: Ilya Ehrenburg

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Author: Black Elk

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Author: Black Elk

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.

Author: Keith Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I'm known clean around the Earth.

Author: Minnesota Fats

No one on this Earth knows how old I am.

Author: Minnesota Fats

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Author: William Faulkner

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Author: Martin Fischer

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Author: E. Forster

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Author: Jim Fowler

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here.

Author: Robert Fresco

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Author: Anna Freud

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

Author: Margaret Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Author: R. Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

Author: R. Fuller

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Author: R. Fuller

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Author: R. Fuller

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

Author: Susan George

No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.

Author: Gil Gerard

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Author: J. Getty

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Author: Khalil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Author: Khalil Gibran

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.

Author: John Glover

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.

Author: Linda Godwin

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Author: William Godwin

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Author: William Goldman

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

Author: Nelson Goodman

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Author: Alexander Great

There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

Author: Wilson Greatbatch

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Author: Wilfred Grenfell

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

Author: Edmond Halley

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

Author: Guy Hamilton

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Author: Augustus Hare

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Author: David Hare

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Author: Woody Harrelson

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Author: Alan Herbert

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

Author: Theodor Herzl

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

Author: Victor Hess

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

Author: Paris Hilton

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

Author: Larry Holmes

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Author: Kin Hubbard

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Author: Ellsworth Huntington

The Earth needs rebels!

Author: David Icke

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Author: Jay Inslee

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Author: Franz Kafka

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Author: Johannes Kepler

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

Author: Leo Kottke

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

Author: Hans Kung

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

Author: Tim LaHaye

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Author: Walter Landor

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

Author: Walter Lang

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

Author: Stefano Langone

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Author: Sanaa Lathan

It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.

Author: Jerry Lawler

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Author: Matt LeBlanc

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

Author: Alvin Lee

I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.

Author: Bill Lee

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Author: John Lennon

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?

Author: Joan Leslie

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Author: C. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Author: C. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Author: C. Lewis

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

Author: Ray Liotta

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Author: John Lithgow

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

Author: Federico Lorca

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Author: Konrad Lorenz

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

Author: James Lovelock

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Author: Amy Lowell

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Author: Max Lucado