Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

We're here on Earth to fart around

We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth.

We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

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

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

We've created the almost godly power of being able to alter the climate, to change the face of the earth, now we need to develop the consciousness of gods, and wield that power wisely

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that and relate the way they should be, future is pretty dim for the human species.