Earthiness Quotes

#1. Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#2. I'm sure that sounds odd, but looking at me and seeing me are two very different things.

Ka Hancock

#3. Sorry if that offends your sense of right and wrong. Oh wait. No, I'm not.

Rick Riordan

#4. Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.

Jeffrey Fry

#5. You can always see a face in the fire. The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

Chris Evans

#7. I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one ... if I come back, I'd love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on.

Louis Leterrier

#8. There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.

Irving Stone

#9. I liked to hear him talk, skipping from one thought to another with his eclectic mix of innocence, wisdom, mild mysticism and earthiness.

Fabian Black

#10. She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness

William Faulkner

#11. If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

Dale Carnegie

#12. But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.
[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]

Hilary Mantel

#13. Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [ ... ] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.

Joy Harjo

#14. I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#15. I've been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it's part of the culture. That's a really good vibe to be around.

Erin Heatherton

#16. It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Kin Hubbard

#17. Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

Charles Hodge

#18. Oppression makes a poor country.

William Penn

#19. The truth is ... you think what people want you to think.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

Simon Baker

#21. I naturally have some curves, like most women, just unfortunately not like most women in Hollywood. I'm only considered curvy in Hollywood. It's a weird town.

Amber Heard

#22. What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

Jim Cymbala