Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

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.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged for passionate flight.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.