Quotes About Earthlings

#1. Human beings are Earthlings and as Earthlings are connected to every other living being on this planet.

Sharon Gannon

#2. Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to. ***

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.

Dick Dale

#4. Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#5. Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

Buzz Aldrin

#6. I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

Buzz Aldrin

#8. Your moon is always full, android. You Earthlings have such limited perspective.

Brian K. Vaughan

#9. Pathetic Earthlings ... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

Mary Kay Ash

#10. 'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny.

Richard Corliss

#11. It's like, Earthlings, you idiots, get it together!

Pittacus Lore

#12. That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I don't think Trout has ever been out of the country," Rosewater went on. "My God - he writes about Earthlings all the time, and they're all Americans. Practically nobody on Earth is an American.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together.

Ruchira Khanna

#16. He just happens to be even more beautiful in person than on Twitter, and screw this- he's totally from Saturn. Earthlings don't look like this.

Nikki Godwin

#17. We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

William Safire

#18. We're all Earthlings so
Be kind to each other

Debby Feo

#19. I'm dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up. I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I'm not from this planet. Earthlings don't faze me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#20. Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky - as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. Earthlings must be the terrors of the Universe! If

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Craig Venter

#25. I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.

Shaquille O'Neal

#26. I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

Shaquille O'Neal

#27. Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.

Seth Shostak

#28. Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

Jill Tarter

#29. I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

Buzz Aldrin

#30. If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. Pen and paper are my life now because in their presence i don't need any person to share my feelings as earthlings haven't any more purity in their behaviors.

M.H. Rakib

#32. What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson