Earth Quotes - page 10

The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth. View quote
Halldór Laxness
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. View quote
Karl Popper
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection. View quote
Walt Whitman
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The poetry of the earth is never dead. View quote
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. View quote
John Keats
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations. (Pliny the Elder)
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort to death the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires and expires, too soon, too soon before life itself. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. View quote
Joseph Conrad
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass. View quote
Bob Knight
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. View quote
C. S. Lewis
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. View quote
Christopher Morley
Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. View quote
Christopher Morley
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
What alive, and so bold, O earth. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. View quote
Isaac Newton
No, this trick won't work.... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love. View quote
Albert Einstein
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. View quote
Albert Einstein