Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the part of the Earth where it actually struck; perhaps even we might cry quits if while one kingdom were devastated, the rest of the Earth were to enjoy the rarities which a body which came from so far might bring it. Perhaps we should be very surprised to find that the debris of these masses that we despised were formed of gold and diamonds; but who would be the most astonished, we, or the comet-dwellers, who would be cast on our Earth? What strange being each would find the other!

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have to be earth necessarily. That's like when people get so wrapped up in the politics of 300 I always go, "By the way, that's a sci-fi movie. It's not really a historical film.

I actually am a down to earth and easy going girl. Not just another model.

I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.