Earth Quotes - page 8

The Earth does not want new continents, but new men. (Jules Verne)
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
God gave all men all the earth to love but, since our hearts are so small, ordained for each, one spot to be beloved over all. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. View quote
Bill Watterson
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth. View quote
William McKinley
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven. View quote
George William Russell
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. View quote
Ernie Pyle
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. View quote
John Steinbeck
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. (Virginia Woolf)
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. View quote
Carl Sagan
To see you naked is to recall the Earth. View quote
Federico García Lorca
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
William Blake
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. View quote
Democritus
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! View quote
Anatole France
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. View quote
Eden Ahbez
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. View quote
Ben Elton
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
Earth helped him with the cry of blood. (William Wordsworth)
A power is passing from the earth. View quote
William Wordsworth
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. View quote
William Wordsworth
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven. View quote
William Wordsworth
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. View quote
William Wordsworth