Of The Earth Quotes

#1. To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

Jules Verne

#2. A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. The Greeks called this place the omphalos, literally the belly button of the earth, though they never specified whether it was an innie or an outie.

Rick Riordan

#4. The world needs to see that this church, of all organizations on the face of the earth, honors women.

M. Russell Ballard

#5. Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

Anna Howard Shaw

#6. Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#7. Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

Tom Hornbein

#8. Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Ugo Betti

#9. you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us al, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.

Isabel Allende

#11. The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

Lesslie Newbigin

#12. You're a nice girl, Dovie. You should be anywhere but here with anyone but me. This shit with Race and Novak, your old man being the scum of the earth . . . you deserve so much more than all of it. Your life should look different than this, and sooner or later you're going to hate me.

Jay Crownover

#13. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

#14. It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.

Brian Weiss

#15. Yours is the day, O God, yours also the night; you established the moon and the sun. You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter. Psalm 74:15,16 Confession

Eric Simmons

#16. For everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

Ruskin Bond

#17. Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

Steven Pinker

#18. Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.

William Dalrymple

#19. There is no man of Nature's worth
In the circle of the earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. No words can express what was happening in the pure soul of the girl: it was a secret for her; let it remain a secret for all and everyone. No one can know, no one has seen or will ever see how the seed summoned to life and fruition swells and ripens in the bosom of the earth.

Turgenev Ivan

#21. Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

Pearl S. Buck

#22. And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away

William Faulkner

#23. Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

Gerrard Winstanley

#24. But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

Ted Shackelford

#25. I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the centre of the earth and make the circuit of the moon and stars

Simone De Beauvoir

#26. If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us?
We shall look upon you, Liberty 5-3000, if we see you among all the women of the earth.

Ayn Rand

#27. Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.

Elizabeth Yates

#28. God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

Gary North

#29. Flowers bloom in the tranquility of love with a beautiful desire for the well-being of the earth.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Put not your trust in the princes of this world, for they will frig thee up and so shalt their governments, even unto the end of the earth.

Stephen King

#31. Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

Paul Hawken

#32. Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.

Deion Sanders

#33. That is the paradoxical power of the scale model; a child holding a globe has a more direct, more intuitive grasp of the earth's scope and variety, of its local vastness and its cosmic tininess, than a man who spends a year in circumnavigation.

Anonymous

#34. Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back
"Is that what you'd do with wings?"
She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back

Mary E. Pearson

#35. A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets.

Demetri Martin

#36. We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

#37. It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#38. Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Ramakrishna

#39. All the sounds of the earth are like music.

Oscar Hammerstein

#40. William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder.

Sarah Perry

#41. Philosophy should come to know the dimensions, qualities and quantities of the earth, the depths of the sea, the capacity of fire and the effects and nature of all these things in order to admire, revere and praise the divine artistry and intelligence.

Asclepius

#42. I will do such things,
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.

William Shakespeare

#43. 18"Have you understood the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Anonymous

#44. Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

Gary Paul Nabhan

#45. Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

#46. We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest.

John O'Donohue

#47. She understood him with the knowing and not-knowing that comes of being a child. When you focus on your parent as if they are the center of the earth, that thing on which your survival depends, only later do you realize their flaws, their scars, and their weaknesses.

Scott Cawthon

#48. Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#49. I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

David R. Brower

#50. Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.

Nostradamus

#51. I would like to invite you to savour every moment of this experiential journey. Feel the energies of the earth, listen to them calling on the wind, whispering their secrets and beckoning you to explore their mysteries.

Carole Carlton

#52. The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

Chief Seattle

#53. In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

#55. There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#56. Just beneath our feet, on the other side of the surface of the earth, there is another, subterranean Enon, which conceals its secret business by conducting it too slowly for its purposes to be observed by the living.

Paul Harding

#57. A most mechanical and dirty hand. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. But they will be the terrors of the earth

William Shakespeare

#58. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church

Ferdinand Magellan

#59. Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story ... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about ... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

Val Guest

#60. Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.

Maria Montessori

#61. Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

Vandana Shiva

#62. I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Robert David Steele

#63. am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.

Swami Vivekananda

#64. It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

Frei Betto

#65. Your Name is holy. May Your Name be worshiped and honored by Your people everywhere. May our lives in no way bring disrespect or dishonor to your great Name. And may all peoples of the earth come to revere Your sacred Name.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#66. When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.

Celeste Ng

#67. Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

Yuri Gagarin

#68. That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#69. An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#70. There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Josiah Strong

#71. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

Henry Ford

#72. Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

Joe Biden

#73. Extraterrestri als are living now on Earth. They are everywhere, among your friends, neighbors, even your relatives. Their blood flows through our veins. We are as much brothers and sisters to beings from the stars as we are to animals of the Earth.

Dolores Cannon

#74. You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you ... all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them.
- Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Brian Jacques

#75. It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

John Lennon

#76. There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.

David Letterman

#77. Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

Akiane Kramarik

#78. There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

John Adams

#79. I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth.

Dirk Kempthorne

#80. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills; And yet not so - for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?

William Shakespeare

#81. 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

#82. Like the terrestrial crust of the earth / which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul / is a miracle of mutual pressures.

Anne Carson

#83. What was wrong with darkness? In the darkness of the Earth the Mother caused seeds to sprout. In the darkness of the womb a baby was conceived. In the darkness of the graves her Children returned to her.

Dave Duncan

#84. To have an encounter with God is to feel the ache of his loving heart for the redemptions of the earth

Sunday Adelaja

#85. Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

Jimmy Swaggart

#86. Jesus is saying, Come, come into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven exists on the face of the earth, and men and women do not understand it.

Adyashanti

#87. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)

Eddie Huang

#88. OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

Rudyard Kipling

#89. If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

Richard P. Feynman

#90. Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

Dalai Lama

#91. It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.

Francis Collins

#92. When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.

Peter Andre

#93. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Thomas Hardy

#94. As we approach the Golden Age, the veils shall be removed and the people of the Earth shall become aware of the people of the Universe.

Edgar Cayce

#95. Water is the soul of the Earth.

W. H. Auden

#96. The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

Lord Chesterfield

#97. The ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Patience Strong

#98. The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.

Brigham Young

#99. Randall was surrounded. He was deep within the bowels of the Earth, hopelessly cut off from any help, as he stood facing a group of strange looking beings.

Robert Rapoza

#100. What about volcanoes?"
"What about them?"
"All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Neil Gaiman