Earth Quotes - Page 103

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

I think hiphop is a beautiful thing and I embody it and I'm going to live it and I'm going to represent it until the day I leave this earth, because I represent everything positive about hiphop.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

How many people is the earth able to sustain?

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton’s theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth.