Give Back To The Earth Quotes

#1. Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you ...

Juliet Marillier

#2. It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Saint Ambrose

#3. You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

Rick Warren

#4. I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.

Kelly Cutrone

#5. May the stars guide you. May the winds cleanse all ills and remain at your back. May the earth protect you and give you strength. May fire guard you, and rain refresh you, may all nature be your friend until we meet again in this place.

Elizabeth Haydon

#6. You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me.

Too $hort

#7. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.

Christopher Poindexter

#8. Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

Lucy Larcom

#9. Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

Mike Harding

#10. When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

Michael S. Horton

#11. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

#12. You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
- Wizard

L. Frank Baum

#14. When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.

Marilou Awiakta

#15. We are all nature, all made of the same basic materials, with the same basic needs. We are no different, on a very basic level, from the ducks and the mussels and last week's coleslaw. Thus we should respect Nature, and when we die, we should give ourselves back to the earth.

Mary Roach

#16. If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

Rob Corddry

#17. We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

Adolf Hitler

#18. Love life, love light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#20. Somewhere, out at the edges, the night / Is turning and the waves of darkness / Begin to brighten the shore of dawn ... The heavy dark falls back to earth / And the freed air goes wild with light, / The heart fills with fresh, bright breath / And thoughts stir to give birth to colour

John O'Donohue

#21. What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

Chris D'Lacey

#22. We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

Colin Mochrie

#23. There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth ... just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

Yasmin Mogahed

#24. It's easier to know who I'm not than to know who I am. When everyone expects me to fail, it's easier to give up than to try.

Marieke Nijkamp

#25. And the earth itself. It smells different in different places. But its loveliest fragrance is known only when it receives a shower of rain. and then the scent of the wet earth rises as though it would give something beautiful back to the clouds. A blend of all the fragrant things that grow upon it.

Ruskin Bond

#26. The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

Thomas Paine

#27. You're going to live. That's not to say you're going to be happy for a while, but it beats the alternative.

Catherine Coulter

#28. If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

Patrick Swayze

#29. Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life?

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#30. The Earth was not dead. She had been sick, yes, weakened by an infestation. Now she was ridding herself of it. For those who remained alive the choice was a simple one, whether they realised it yet or not: Work with the land
respect it and give back to it
or die.

Joseph D'Lacey

#31. Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth - yea, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning! A

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

Brent Musburger

#33. Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.

Marilou Awiakta

#34. The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#35. I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

TobyMac

#36. My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

Mike Myers

#37. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood ffor thousands of years, was saying back to her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? Give it a shot.

Rick Riordan

#38. I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carver