Earth Quotations | Page 3

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

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.

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!

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

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

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth

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.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

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

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.

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.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

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

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

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

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

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

One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

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

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

You are a little god on earth running around.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

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

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

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

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

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

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

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.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

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.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.