Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

Anna Quindlen

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Chynna Phillips

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

Ann Aguirre

Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.

Chuck D.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

Chuck D.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth...

Christopher Paolini

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - Valdr

Christopher Marlowe

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Ann Douglas

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Andy Borowitz

Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

We suddenly have the global view, the view of the Earth from the moon, and it's pretty thrilling.

Elena Vesnina

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Tove Jansson

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Boozoo Chavis

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

Billy Campbell

Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

Brigham Young

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

Barry Eisler

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

Eckhart Tolle

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Elijah Wood

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

Ed Bradley

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

David Ricardo

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

David Icke

The Earth needs rebels!

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Barry Commoner

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Barry Commoner

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Barbara Walters

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Arthur C. Clarke

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

Demetri Martin

Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.