Quotes About Earth

The world's whole sap is sunk:The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk,Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh,Compared with me, who am their epitaph.

At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls.

You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.

Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them?

As yet God suspends me between heaven and earth, as a meteor; and I am not in heaven because an earthly body clogs me, and I am not in the earth because a heavenly soul sustains me.

The Sunne who goes so many miles in a minut, The Starres of the Firmament, which go so very many more, goe not so fast, as my body to the earth.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation.

He rais'd a mortal to the skies,She drew an angel down.

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth expos'd he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.

The psalmist agreed: Young men and maidens together, old men and children! Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven. (Ps. 148:12–13)

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.