Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Carl Sagan

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Dana Snyder

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

It hasn't rained enough to hamper any of the earth work.

Gaylord Nelson

John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

Gloria Reuben

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to occur, but you can't tell if it's going to occur this year or next year or the year after.

I think of it as an opportunity to talk about the earthquake using visual materials in a different way.

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

Petrarch

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s.

OK. Think real person; confident, open, honest, informal, down to earth, approachable, believable, not stuffy, warm, soothing, inviting tone of voice. Play with your regional accent. You're a person, not a machine - it's you, Martine Brown, a person, which is why we want a regional accent.

Alfred North Whitehead

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

Tupac Shakur

When will there be peace on earth?When the earth has fallen to pieces.

Adam Brown

I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

Dalai Lama

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Dogen

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Desmond Tutu

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

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.

Alexander Pope

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

Alex Grey

I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth

E. O. Wilson

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

E. O. Wilson

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

Dorothy Thompson

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

Donald Cargill

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

Douglas Adams

Earth: mostly harmless

Don Winslow

And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you’re safe.