Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.

About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

A covenant energy is anchored on the planet at this time, and it carries the new contract for the Earth plane in this second phase of this new dawning era.

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

Adore man, the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the Earth is moving.'

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.