Earth Citizen Quotes

#1. And most importantly, the next time someone asks you "Who are you?" you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: "I am an Earth Citizen

Ilchi Lee

#2. Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader reality of who you truly are.

Ilchi Lee

#3. After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

Melania Trump

#4. I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

#5. It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.

Richard Gist

#6. As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

Helen Caldicott

#7. The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

John Desmond Bernal

#8. Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, which is the tool we use to evaluate. Once we make sure it is functioning as it should, we can feel confident in using it to think about our beliefs and priorities.

Ilchi Lee

#9. Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Jim Clyburn

#10. I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#11. If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Matthew Modine

#14. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

Stephen R. Prothero

#15. He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

Franz Kafka

#16. I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

Chuck D

#17. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.

Sarah Palin

#18. The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

Todd Rundgren

#19. No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Karl Popper

#20. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.

Ilchi Lee

#21. If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. The average citizen now has near-instantaneous access to information about events in every nation on earth.

Alain De Botton

#23. Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

Darrell Issa

#24. The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.

Guy P. Harrison

#25. The man who flies shall fight again.
[Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

Demosthenes

#26. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.

Mark Levin

#27. A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#28. Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.

Barbara Brennan

#29. The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe

#30. People will always have their opinions; I've come to learn whose matter.

John Varvatos

#31. I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

Naveen Andrews

#32. If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

Maira Kalman

#33. I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

Kate Smith

#34. If we don't see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough.

Ilchi Lee

#35. A Christian's citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.

Billy Graham