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Earth quotes (31) The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on good to live on good to die for and to be buried in. James Russell Lowell Category: Earth All people eat All people count for one of his kind All people die. Most people have funerals and Some people are funerals! Elias Penn-Smith Category: Earth Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran Category: Earth Here bring your wounded hearts here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Charles Lamb Category: Earth We are here on Earth to do good for others. What the others are here for I do not know. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Earth As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space - it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family. Hubert H. Humphrey Category: Earth The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with usand who though distant is close to us in spirit this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Earth Our Father which art in heavenStay there And we will stay on earth Which is sometimes so pretty. Jacques Prevert Category: Earth Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors we borrow it from our Children. Proverb Category: Earth There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. William Bourke Cockran Category: Earth I conjure you my brethren to remain faithful to earth and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are whether they know it or not. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Earth There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan Category: Earth Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Dr. Albert Schweitzer Category: Earth The earth is the cradle of the mind but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky Category: Earth An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea he answered with bold pride. What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship I am called a robber whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor. Saint Augustine of Hippo Category: Earth The supreme reality of our time is ... the vulnerability of this planet. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Category: Earth In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the learned find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer Category: Earth The best investment on earth is earth. Louis J. Glickman Category: Earth Earth thou great footstool of our God who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment life and food; our house our parent and our nurse. Isaac Watts Category: Earth Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau Category: Earth The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. John Greenleaf Whittier Category: Earth Earth's crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes The rest sit round it and pick blackberries And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the first similitude. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Earth Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Earth Early things must be known to be loved: divine things must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal Category: Earth The earth belongs to the living not to the dead. Thomas Jefferson Category: Earth To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry Category: Earth God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. Benjamin Franklin Category: Earth One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. Tshunka WITKO (Crazy Horse) Category: Earth One generation passeth away and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The Bible Category: Earth In times of profound change the learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Al Rogers Category: Earth Earths crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth B. Browning Category: Earth |
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