Earth Quotes

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 belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

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

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to 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.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

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

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants.

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

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.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

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

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.