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Quotes About Earth

My name is Chief Animae Cibus, I come from the Anasazi, a name meaning, alien ancestors and basket weavers. We walked this earth and these lands for a very long time. I have not come to harm you, I have come to admonish you." Instinctively
~ John V. Panella
He was an extraordinarily ugly person, Lilo thought, with the ugliness that only caricature can achieve. As repulsive as a twisted, stunted ghost from the past on Old Earth.
~ John Varley
Gaea is one. Gaea is alive. We live inside her.
~ John Varley
There is only one Goddess, even to the angels. Gaea is known to all the races within her.
~ John Varley
Mighty as Gaea was, she had seen better days.
~ John Varley
Gaby shouldn't have called this place Themis. Call it Gaia.
~ John Varley
I thought Earth was a fable for the young, spun out around campfires. And I thought Earth beings to be Titanides.
~ John Varley
I am the Earth Mother, though I am not your Earth. All life springs from me. I am one of the pantheon that reaches to the stars. Call me a Titan.
~ John Varley
Columbia got into orbit without any trouble, docked on schedule with the ISS, and successfully completed a multidisciplinary microgravity and Earth science research mission lasting more than two weeks.
~ John W. Young
We might have what it takes to win. Visions of Earth filled his head. The devastation, the destruction. How can we fight that sort of mindless violence? That was the key to their survival. Finding the answer. ?And acting on it in a meaningful way.
~ John Walker
Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air, Or all the elements by scruples, I know not, Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot! Of all deaths, the violent death is best; For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast, The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.
~ John Webster
None of us is exempt; all of us have to realize that religion always carries with it the danger that we will make God into the likeness of something on earth, and in doing so we will lose faith, and lose God. What
~ John Webster
Do you not weep? Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out: The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
~ John Webster
Now they were in the earth to which they had given their lives; and slowly, year by year, the earth would take them. Slowly the damp and rot would infest the pine boxes which held their bodies, and slowly it would touch their flesh, and finally it would consume the last vestiges of their substances. And they would become a meaningless part of that stubborn earth to which they had long ago given themselves.
~ John Williams
The sad reality is that there are many Christians who are "saved", "heaven bound," and "hell proofed" who do not care about the souls of the lost. What a beautiful contrast our Lord Jesus Christ is! His passion for souls brought Him from Heaven to earth, His Passion for souls motivated His compassionate activity. His passion for souls pressed Him to a rough cross where He surrendered His life to save the lost.
~ John Willis Zumwalt
Can you imagine us tolerating any form of rival intelligence on earth, no matter how it got here? Why, we can't even tolerate anything but the narrowest differences of views within our own race. No,' he shook his head, 'no, I'm afraid Bocker's idea of fraternization never had the chance of a flea in a furnace.
~ John Wyndham
It won't be just one bomb. And it was always too late, my dear. Can you imagine us tolerating any form of rival intelligence on earth, no matter how it got here? Why, we can't even tolerate anything but the narrowest differences of views within our own race.
~ John Wyndham
And mentally, I don't believe, really, that I am one bit more out of my head than any other creature here on earth.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.
~ Elizabeth Yates
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To be able to enjoy heaven, one must learn first to enjoy earth.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
~ Ellen G. White
A wise purpose underlay every act of Christ's life on earth. Everything He did was important in itself and in its teaching.
~ Ellen G. White