Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy O'Dell

I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.

Kate Chopin

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

Karen Thompson Walker

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

Julian Baggini

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

Keith Moon

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

You tried to move heaven and earth to get a search warrant to search this man's belongings. You were obstructed.

It's important. It's the Earth and we live on it.

It's an example of what the whole of New Guinea was like 50,000 years ago when there was no hunting, no impact of logging and no environmental desecration. There're very few places left on earth where there has been so little human impact.

There weren't a huge number of reports. On our website, typically after a felt earthquake we would have hundreds.

Alan Stern

It used to be that Pluto was a misfit. Now it turns out that Earth is the misfit. Most planets in the solar system look like Pluto, and not like the terrestrial planets.

It will be a symbolic step of life from Earth, leaving Earth, and growing somewhere else.

John Heywood

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, / Which God and nature do with actors fill.

The world is mud-luscious and mind is a frog, take a leap.

Ella Wilcox

The two kinds of people on earth that I meanAre the people who lift and the people who lean.

It takes 7 1/2 minutes for a signal to get from Earth to the spacecraft and another 7 1/2 minutes to get back. So, we can't joystick this spacecraft like a video game.

Mike Williams

It's just so much fun and different and down to Earth. People come out with their families and their kids and have a good time.

Chris Morris

It's like the piece of the net at the Final Four. One place on earth, one day, there it is.

It's going to be the greatest thing on planet Earth,

It's good Earth stewardship, and good stewardship over our own public-resource dollars.

There may be heaven; there must be hell; / Meantime, there is our earth here - well!

There'll be no major earthquake in Lebanon. There'll be only one element: the presidency,

Ed Baker

They're like manna from heaven, but they pop up out of the earth.

They're Ringling Bros. I'm like everyone else in the world thinks of Ringling is the greatest show on Earth.

They're not over. For a shallow-depth earthquake like this they go on, sometimes for a year.

Alan Alda

There's a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, ... Others will step in and fill in his shoes excellently. But no one can replace the unique presence that was Peter.

Ah! you are so great, and I am so small,I tremble to think of you, World, at all;And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,A whisper inside me seemed to say,"You are more than the earth, though you are such a dot;You can love and think, and the earth cannot!

The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven

Elizabeth Queen

Your work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

This is a shocking setback. We need to know what on earth is going on.

This is a series of quakes like those that occur in many other parts of the world. We don't expect to have a large earthquake or a devastating earthquake from this.

If you look at our own planet Earth, for half of its history, life was microscopic. It's the first step to more complicated life.

Reed Hundt

The reverberations at first will be subterranean, but they will be of earthquake proportions.

Michael J. Massimino

The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking through the window, you can see the earth and the stars, and it's very beautiful, but it's like looking at an aquarium, sort of. When you go outside and spacewalk, you become a scuba diver.