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Earth Quotes - Page 83

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.9, University of Michigan Press

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.599, Cambridge University Press

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.183

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Return of the Native: Works of Hardy”, p.14, 谷月社

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.262

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle (1838). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.177

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

"Imitation of Christ", Book I, Chapter III. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 313-14, 1922.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books