Earth To Quotes

#1. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Boris Pasternak

#2. There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#3. Who wouldn't have gone to the ends of the earth to be reunited with the person they loved more than life itself? Who wouldn't have ripped their own heart out to stop that kind of pain?

Chris Colfer

#4. I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

Kyle Kinane

#5. You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold
And set my ashes aflame.

Muhammad Iqbal

#7. Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

James Lovelock

#8. The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do.

Nicola Yoon

#9. Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Vincent Van Gogh

#10. O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Fanny Fern

#11. That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity

Brian Swimme

#12. Krishna was the unborn original Personality of Godhead, appearing on earth to destroy demonic men and to establish the eternal religion, pure love of God.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#13. It's the same for most of us but one of the best things I learned was to stay out of the bars and also to try to stay off the street. I fail sometimes to stay off the streets but not too often. the finest place on earth to drink is in your own place and alone. you probably know all this. all right.

Charles Bukowski

#14. We didn't come to earth to get anything. We came to awaken our full potential and infuse this dimension with divine light.

Derek Rydall

#15. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

Stanislaw Lem

#16. We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is
beyond me.

W. H. Auden

#17. I think thus of Satan's pride: it is difficult for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore, how easy it is to fall into error and partake of it, thinking, moreover, that we are doing something great and beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

Noel Gallagher

#19. We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Marianne Williamson

#20. No, I loved you because I couldn't not. I loved you because it was what I was put on this earth to do." I

Lesley Jones

#21. God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

Martha Ostenso

#22. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Norman Mailer

#24. Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

Richard Bach

#25. In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

Evo Morales

#26. Sadly ... despair is with humanity and will affect all of us sooner or later. To accomplish the great things we were put on this earth to do ... we must all reach down deep inside of us and overcome it. There is no other way.

Timothy Pina

#27. She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

Oscar Wilde

#28. There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

Victor Levin

#29. I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Lou Holtz

#30. They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

Virginia Woolf

#31. 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.

Plato

#32. The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

Rick Warren

#33. In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

Frederick Franck

#34. Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

Lisa See

#35. I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Matt LeBlanc

#36. Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

Christopher J.H. Wright

#37. And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#38. God, help me ... did you send her to me? Because it felt like you did. It felt like you put her on this earth to find me and take over my very being with her goodness. I closed my eyes and hoped so.

Shelly Crane

#39. We declare our right on this earth ... to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

#40. To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

C.S. Lewis

#41. When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan

#42. God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

Bil Keane

#43. The earth makes creatures well again. When you are sick you are put to bed, and when you are very sick, you are put into the earth to make you well.

Karen Maitland

#44. Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

Marco Rubio

#45. The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places
to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

Olympia Brown

#46. Harry?" Bob asked. "Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids?"
I blinked. "What?"
"Earth to Dresden," Bob said. "You are standing knee-deep in de Nile.

Jim Butcher

#47. And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal.

George MacDonald

#48. God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function.

Robert Novak

#49. Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

Carl Sagan

#50. smashed that kid's face in. I bashed his brains until they were splattered across the floor. Eric snapped his fingers to bring Aaron back around. "Earth to Holbrook.

Ania Ahlborn

#51. Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#52. We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#53. Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know - mainly because I learned it from books - that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth

Karen Swallow Prior

#54. "Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.

Trina Paulus

#55. It's a common form of kindness here on Earth to give people food to take home with them when they leave. We even have special receptacles to carry the food in. It's called Tupperware.
Jory explaining leftovers to Dane

Mary Calmes

#56. God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

Jim McMahon

#58. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.

Nancy Atwell

#59. There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#60. I'm trying to see the magic in everyday miracles now: the fact that my heart still beats, that I can lift my feet off of the earth to walk and that there is something in me worthy of love.

Katja Millay

#61. Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

Simone Elkeles

#62. A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.

Wendell Berry

#63. The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom,
The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

#64. My father told me once that we are on earth to learn. God wants us to receive everything that life was meant to teach. Then we take what we've learned, and it becomes our offering to God and to mankind. But we have to live in order to learn. And sometimes we have to fight in order to live.

Amy Harmon

#65. You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#66. We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

Thomas S. Monson

#67. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.

Edmund Burke

#68. Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above. K. Hepburn in The African Queen

Jan Karon

#69. No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

T.D. Jakes

#70. It is simply a question of fulfilment. You feel perfectly alive and magnificently perfected by the knowledge that you are doing what you were put on earth to do.

Stephen Fry

#71. Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

#72. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

David Foreman

#73. It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way

Joseph Heller

#74. The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.

Thomas Berry

#75. From a boy
I gloated on existence. Earth to me
Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there
One trembling opportunity for joy.

Alan Seeger

#76. We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

James Van Praagh

#77. we have forgotten that we were born
of celestial cataclysm.

we have forgotten how to dance
bare-footed on the earth to the cadence
of our souls. we have forgotten the ritual
fires and the acrid tang of holy smoke
on our tongues.

Beth Morey

#78. Life in a free society ... is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

Margaret Thatcher

#79. Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#80. Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#81. Remember that however poor and needy thou art, yet the Lord thinketh upon thee. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#82. I rejoice in the fact that Christ is not dead but risen from the grave! He lives and has returned to the earth to restore His authority and gospel to man. He has given us the perfect example of the kind of men and women we should be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#83. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Rick Warren

#84. Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Socrates

#85. Love is the bridge that connects earth to heaven.

Nikhil Kushwaha

#86. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values ... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Charles Lindbergh

#87. Now Rose will have to go to the ends of the earth to find-and kill-the man she loves.

Richelle Mead

#88. I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.

Julie Moir Messervy

#89. Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know ... It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#90. What are you looking at? she asks.
What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was
put on this earth to find? Yes.

Pete Wentz

#91. It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Robert Frost

#92. You're the reason that my life wound up being worth anything angel, and I swear to you that I'll move Heaven and Earth to be worthy of you, always.

Ella Fox

#93. Families are the Lord's workshop on earth to help us learn and live the gospel. We come into our families with a sacred duty to help strengthen each other spiritually.

Cheryl A. Esplin

#94. Her insides began to roar with a ferocious explosion of sensation and entitlement. For a moment, her thinking mind know this was what male and females were put on earth to do.

Lisa McKnight

#95. Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.

Thomas Sankara

#96. The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

Margaret Atwood

#97. Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

Dolores Cannon

#98. Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Barney Oliver

#99. Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

John Hagee

#100. But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

Ellen G. White