Earth Quotes - page 7

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now. (Robert Browning)
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! View quote
Anne Tyler
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth. View quote
Sandra Bernhard
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. View quote
Charles Reade
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. View quote
Bell hooks
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. View quote
George Harrison
I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth. View quote
Marc Anthony
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. (James Baldwin)
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. View quote
George Washington Carver
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them. View quote
Oscar Wilde
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. View quote
Don DeLillo
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. View quote
John Jay
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. View quote
Thomas Wolfe
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. View quote
Thomas Moore
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible. (Georg Brandes)
All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth. View quote
Richard Matheson
The Earth needs rebels! View quote
David Icke
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier. View quote
Lin Yutang
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. View quote
Jules Verne