Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night.

That will be the position I will be in as long as I'm on earth--that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid out for me.

That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.