Earth Quotes

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

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

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

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

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.