Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Vandana Shiva

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

Vandana Shiva

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

David A. Bednar

I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood….I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth—messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthy—and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.

David Whyte

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Daisaku Ikeda

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Dan Quayle

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

We didn't expect such a big earthquake in that location.

Dogen

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

Donella Meadows

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

Rove McManus

(But) the more celebrities that I meet, I find them to be really down to earth people in the most part.

Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.

Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Patti Smith

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Tho'/ We are not now that strength that in old days/ Moved earth and heaven: that which we are, we are;/ One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

True fragments of history have re-emerged intact from the oblivion of time and the Earth.

Dana Snyder

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

Petrarch

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: / I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those that listen.

Orison Swett Marden

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

Alice Walker

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

The praise of those who sleep in earth,The pleasant memory of their worth,The hope to meet when life is past,Shall heal the tortured mind at last.

The praise of those who sleep in earth, The pleasant memory of their worth, The hope to meet when life is past, Shall heal the tortured mind at last.

Joseph Lowery

The queen mother of the movement has passed from earth to glory,

Sitting Bull

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

We are disappointed about the postponement of the departure, but we will work hard to have the probe back to Earth as long as there is a possibility.

Robert Anderson

No human being on this earth should go through what my son went though. I just wish they could have done me like that instead of it being him.

Perdition. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.