Earth Quotes - Page 54

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was incomparably more flammable material within the Earth. Over the many thousands of years that have passed, the quantity of flammable material has doubtless decreased.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.

I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.

It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.