Earth Quotes

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

~ Thomas Aquinas

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

~ Roger Ailes

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

~ Elon Musk

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

~ Daphne Zuniga

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

~ Abraham Lincoln

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

~ Ronald Reagan

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

~ John Boyd Orr

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

~ Ezra Stiles

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

~ Barbara Walters

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

~ Ted Cruz

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

~ Bill Viola

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

~ Gary Paulsen

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

~ Malcolm X

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

~ Isaac Of Nineveh

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

~ Richard Bach

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

~ Zhuangzi

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

~ James A. Baldwin

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

~ Ashley Olsen

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

~ Mary Oliver

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

~ Gifford Pinchot

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

~ Dimitar Sasselov

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president - and the president alone - who always makes the final call.

~ Michelle Obama

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.

~ Max Heindel

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

~ Evo Morales

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

~ Marlee Matlin

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

~ Sidney Sheldon

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

~ Jim Clyburn

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

~ Ramez Naam

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

~ Sitting Bull