Earth Quotes - 3
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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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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.
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..
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
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
wyndham lewis— America and Cosmic Man (New York: Doubleday, [1948] 1949) p. 21.
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more near the earth than she was wont; And makes men mad.
william shakespeare— Othello, Act 5, Scene 2
I am a passenger on the spaceship, earth.
— 1969 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, ch.1.
I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).
fatimah— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.2, p.3
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.
roger zelazny— Isle of the Dead
Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 2:7-9.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
john keats— 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 5.
Sothat finding myself at present inorabout onehundred and twenty degrees off east longitude from England, it bred in me a desire to proceed on the same easterly course till I had ended where I began, and so to have once made one circle round the globe of the earth, which would have been a voyage of voyages.
Peter Mundy— c.1640 Objections were raised and Mundy was unable to fulfil this aim. Travels (published c.1650).
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
edgar cayce— Cayce answered this to a minister's question - Where is the safest place to live?
[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.
william crookes— As quoted in Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements (New Edition) by John Emsley (page 266)
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
w. e. b. dubois— The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 50, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898)
It is they who glorify, who shall enjoy Him; they who deny themselves, who shall not be denied; they who labor on earth, who shall rest in heaven; they who bear the cross, who shall wear the crown; they who seek to bless others, who shall be blessed.
thomas guthrie— P. 118. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
toni morrison— As quoted in Woman to Woman (1994) by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman
Mystery: Time and Tide shall pass,I am the Wisdom Looking-Glass.This is the Ruby none can touch:Many have loved it overmuch;Its fathomless fires flutter and sigh,Being as images of the flameThat shall make earth and heaven the sameWhen the fire of the end reddens the sky,And the world consumes like a burning pall,Till where there is nothing, there is all.
Alfred Noyes— Part III : The Mystic Ruby
God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.
paul of tarsus— Acts 17:30,31 New World Translation
What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal
T. S. Eliot— The Waste Land, "What the Thunder Says", Line 367 et seq.
I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.
Guy de Maupassant— "Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
anaïs nin— "Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Remembering... that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.
vitruvius— Chapter VI, Sec. 9
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood Over thy wounds now do I prophesy.
— Julius Caesar, Act III, scene 1, line 254.
Unlike ballet, the demi plié of Bharata Natyam is not an intermediary position from which the body moves. The Indian technique demands a muscular consolidation of this position by allowing the weight of the lower body to ‘earth’ it. The arms in natya-aramba in a semi circular shape peculiar to Bharata Natyam create three-dimensional effect to the circle and trace its curve.
— In "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader" p.185
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
rachel carson— American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Frances Gurney— Dorothy Frances Gurney, God's Garden
They now to fight are gone; Armor on armor shone: Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake; Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.
Michael Drayton— Michael Drayton, Ballad of Agincourt, Stanza 8. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
— King James Version of Psalm 83:18 Other translations do not use "Jehovah" in this passage.
