Earth Quotes - 2
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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished earth.
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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for woman poop, that premature death must in some shape or other vist the human race.
thomas malthus— An Essay on The Principle of Population, Chapter VII, paragraph 20, lines 2-4 (1798)
Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Archimedes— Traditionally attributed to Archimedes; a variation can be found in Plutarch Marcellus,14.
Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind that their being is to be perceived or known.
George Berkeley— 1710 A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge, pt.1, section 6.
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.
Bible (Old Testament)— Deuteronomy 32:1-2.
History of Jews is full of deception, trickery, rebellion, oppression, evil and corruption. They always seek to cause mischief on the earth and Allaah loves not the mischief-makers.
abdul rahman al-sudais— Shaykh Abdur Rahmaan As-Sudays. www.alharamainsermons.org (April 19, 2002). Retrieved on 2007-03-19..
When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
charles fletcher dole— The Coming People (1897)
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
charles lindbergh— As quoted in Reader's Digest (July 1972)
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold--brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald MacLeish— As quoted in Richard Milhous Nixon's First Inaugural Address (given January 20, 1969).
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.
Henry David Thoreau— January 25, 1858
I am a monarch of God 's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ .
napoleon bonaparte— Addressing members of the Catholic clergy assembled during ‘Bonaparte's Conference with the Catholic and Protestant clergy at Breda,’ May 1, 1810 (originally reported in the Gazette of Dorpt), as quoted in The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the French: with a preliminary view of the French revolution, Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1857, p. 91Variant translation: God placed me on the throne, and you reptiles of the earth dare oppose me. I owe no account of my administration to the pope,— only to God and Jesus Christ.As quoted in The Christian Observer, Volume 10, 1861, p. 261
It is always hard to hear people say such nice things about us, because quite honestly I feel very privileged and honored to be of service in any way I can. I think that is my mission here on earth in some way -- whether it is entertaining people or trying to help in whatever way I can. So [the attention and acclaim] is pretty embarrassing to me.
gloria estefan— comment at ceremony to honor million dollar donation from Gloria and Emilio Estefan to The Miamia Project to Cure Paralysis Human Clinical Trials Program
At Tara today in this fateful hour I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And fire with all the strength it hath, And lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness.
— "The Rune of St. Patrick", derived from "The Lorica", both traditionally attributed to St. Patrick, published in Lyrica Celtica (1896); also in Celtic Christianity : Ecology and Holiness (1987) by Christopher Bamford and William Parker Marsh, p. 54
The popular statement, “From here to Timbuktu”, conjures up images of remote, distant parts of the earth . But Timbuktu is in fact a real city in the west African country of Mali .
— Kristina Chetcuti, in All the way from Timbuktu (9 July 2012)
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, Richard II (c. 1595) Act 2, scene 1, line 40.
What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 3, line 39.
The day begins to break, and night is fled, Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act II, scene 2, line 1.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
— John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night", The Power-House (1916)
Winds, storms, tempests, thunders, lightnings, raging flames, dissolving elements, the archangel's trump smiting the silence of the tomb, the universal air blazing with disastrous splendors, "the tribes of the earth mourning and beating their breasts," the wicked calling on rocks and hills to fall upon them and cover them, the shouts of the saved, the howlings of the damned – all, all will then utter one voice, all will pierce our very souls with their tones; all will repeat these words, "God alone is great, and God's salvation alone deserved the cares, toils, sacrifices of an immortal spirit."
richard fuller— Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, p. 359) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert.
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.
— George Herbert, p. 525. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of executions in the world in both absolute numbers and per capita. The death penalty applies to a wide range of non-violent activities such as apostasy and "witchcraft", "sexual offences", acts deemed to amount to "corruption on earth", and crimes such as drug dealing.
— "NRI beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murder" at NRIinternet (25 July 2005)
Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup. Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
— Wendy Cope
She shall be buried by her Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous.
— Octavius Caesar, scene ii
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day. … The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.
emma goldman— Emma Goldman, The Failure of Christianity (1913).
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
jim fowler— American professional zoologist and host
Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on earth.
roberto clemente— As quoted in "He just can't kick the baseball habit" by Peter Leo, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11 July 2006)
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to earth and man ascends to Heaven, till earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one."
juan donoso cortés— Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism, 1879.
They are subhuman. They are the scum of the earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
bobby fischer— Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
