Earth Quotes - Page 68

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one would be ill; all buildings would be earthquake-, bomb-, and flood-proof; and the world's entire economy would have collapsed and been replaced by one based on the value of chocolate.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.