| "Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places." »Ernest Dimnet |
| "Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to earth." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height" »Koran |
| "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong |
| "Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again" »Rudyard Kipling |
| "Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves..." »Chief Seattle |
| "What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven." »Lucretius |
| "This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind. . . . ." »Phylos the Tibetan |
| "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them." »Homer |
| "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." »William Shakespeare |
| "Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." »Andrew Schneider |
| "The big, huge meteor headed toward the earth. Could nothing stop it Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor---through some kind of space warp or something. 'Go, Bob, go' yelled one of the generals. 'Give me that' said the big-guy general as he took the microphone away. 'Listen, Bob,' he said. 'You've got to steer that meteor away from earth.' 'Yes, but how' thought Bob. Then he got an idea. Right next to him there was a steering wheel sticking out of the meteor." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." »W. H. Auden |
| "There is nothing hidden between Heaven and earth." »Venezuelan Proverb |
| "The earth has music for those who listen." »William Shakespeare |
| "We are immortal until our work on earth is done." »George Whitefield |
| "Love much. earth has enough of bitter in it." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "There is no security on earth there is only opportunity." »Douglas MacArthur |
| "There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." »General Douglas MacArthur |
| "We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you." »Jeff Warner |
| "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." »Marshall McLuhan |
| "Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." »Don Marquis |
| "America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth." »David Frost |
| "Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee." »Biblical Proverb |
| "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can." »Anonymous |
| "The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road." »Karen Blixen |
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