Planet Quotes - page 3

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. (Richard Dawkins)
We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability. View quote
Mitt Romney
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans... And to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family. View quote
Mitt Romney
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. View quote
Jack London
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. View quote
Martha Graham
Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire. View quote
Shari Arison
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. View quote
Eve Ensler
I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet. (Eva Herzigova)
We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. View quote
Loren Eiseley
You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here. View quote
Alex Van Halen
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. View quote
Graham Nash
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms. View quote
Graham Nash
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. View quote
George Crumb
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. View quote
Laurel Clark
Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth. View quote
Laurel Clark
I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so. View quote
Richard O'Brien
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz. (Sonny Rollins)
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. View quote
Theodore White
Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. View quote
Victoria Principal
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. View quote
Yahoo Serious
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. View quote
Buckminster Fuller