Earth Quotes

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

~ Will Rogers

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

~ Eric Hoffer

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

~ Thomas Malthus

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

~ John Muir

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

~ Saint Ambrose

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

~ C. S. Lewis

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

~ Daniel Morgan

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

~ Lewis Mumford

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

~ Bill Nye

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

~ Roberto Clemente

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

~ Samuel Gompers

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

~ Taye Diggs

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

~ George Sand

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

~ Camille Paglia

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

~ Andrea Dworkin

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

~ George Allen

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

~ Alice Walker

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

~ Jimmy Carter

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

~ Juliette Binoche

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

~ Anne Tyler

Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

~ Warren Spector

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

~ Sylvester Mccoy

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

~ Niels Arden Oplev

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

~ Greg Bear

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

~ John Jay

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

~ Thomas Malthus

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.

~ Yoko Ono

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

~ Nelson Rockefeller

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

~ Isaac Newton

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

~ Anatole France

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

~ Russell M. Nelson

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

~ Standing Bear

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

~ Lou Holtz

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning