Earth Quotes - Page 21

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely "some day." Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.

Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, ʻI would... but ye would not.ʼ

All the BEAUTY in the earth bears the FINGERPRINT of the master creator” Gordon B. Hinckley

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.