Earth Was Given Quotes

#1. The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

James Monroe

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

George MacDonald

#3. Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

George Perkins Marsh

#4. We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

Sheri S. Tepper

#5. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men ... Every Christian is to be a witness;
every follower of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#6. This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

Tom Brown Jr.

#7. She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because their first one had been worn out.

Dorothy Koomson

#8. He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if maybe Paradise was to be found in a person and not a place.

J.M. Darhower

#9. All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Ovid

#10. Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

Carl Hoppe

#12. Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

Robert E. Ornstein

#13. What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening, it is a veritable revolution. The vision was given in order to begin to awaken those who are destined to radically change the course, and even the very definition of Christianity.

Rick Joyner

#14. I'm just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth.

B. Barmanbek

#15. People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!

Michael Coren

#16. I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

Jeremiah Denton

#17. The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

Che Guevara

#19. A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

William Wordsworth

#20. Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not.
There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

Neil Gaiman

#21. I see danger - awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God has given me. This is the job I must do, so my hands will be free of your blood.

Frank Bruno

#22. I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.' Vega

Amanda Hocking

#24. This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.

Ron Garan

#25. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. The

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Angelina Grimke

#27. The earth craves our replenishment. Let our gifts serve the purpose for which it was given to us.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#28. Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#29. If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Alice Sebold