Earth Quotes - Page 100

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

I'm known clean around the Earth.

Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

Earth is a family business.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.