Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.
Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion