Quotes
Quotes about Earth
Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain. No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. So in heaven's spot and hour Springs the little native flower, Downward root and upward eye, Shapen by the earth and sky.
Living on Earth includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.
Earth was interesting, and worth the money I paid for it.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
