Quotes About Earth

The sky spoke to him. It was a language he had never heard before. He was not even certain there were words. Perhaps it only spoke to him in the black writing the birds made. He was small and unprotected and there was no escape. He was caught between earth and sky as if cupped between two hands. They could crush him if they chose.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

All too long, those who teach of God have taught the worlds the evolutionary process of the soul as if the soul must advance itself from the physical body to the mind and then to the spirit. But this has never been God's way, and all who have sought God have misunderstood God's plan but for only a handful and a few. The Earth is God's key world that He

In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of the libraries.

This was a simple exchange, labor for cash. It had nothing to do with gestures of kindness, or if you knew the other guy's name or not, or what mans' ultimate purpose on earth might be. What the market would bear--that was the only relevant question. (from the short story 'A Fair Price')

Of course it was all just whistling in the dark, but sometimes she would conclude by saying that despite their clumsy grief and all the lost and puzzling years that still lay ahead of them, the earth was no less beautiful.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast...

Keep a Strong Network of Prayer Guardian of my soul, guide me on my way today. Keep me safe from harm. Deepen my relationship with you, your Earth, and all your family. Strengthen your love within me that I may be a presence of your peace in our world. Amen

Te daré las llaves del reino de los cielos; lo que ates en la tierra quedará atado en el cielo, y lo que desates en la tierra quedará desatado en el cielo. Mateo 16, versículo 19. Es decir, las palabras con las que Jesús confirmó a San Pedro como jefe de los Apóstoles y le otorgó a él y a sus sucesores el poder sobre toda la cristiandad.

Y no deja de ser paradójico que tantos siglos de ciencia nos hayan llevado a saber algo que cualquier bosquimano del Kalahari, cualquier aborigen australiano, o cualquiera de nuestros antepasados que pintaron los bisontes de Altamira conocía de sobra: que la Tierra no pertenece al hombre, sino que el hombre pertenece a la Tierra.

El pozo! Platero, ¡qué palabra tan honda, tan verdinegra, tan fresca, tan sonora! Parece que es la palabra la que taladra girando, la tierra oscura, hasta llegar al agua fría".

El cielo está tan alto, y mis ojos tan sin mirada, que vivía contenta con saber dónde quedaba la tierra.

Earth: the tangible realm of mortal people and creatures • Spirit World: the realm of deities and spiritual beings—angels, fairies, djinn, and so forth • Dreamland: experiences in dreams really happen; just on a different plane of existence • Realm of the Dead: the after-life

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Course I don't own the land," she said as if speaking to a simpleton, "no body own the land. The land own us.

Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception.

Ô Terre, ô terre, ô race humaine, / vous me faites bien de la peine.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Know this, too: You deserve love. Real, enduring love. Buckets of it. Love is the greatest high on Earth. But remember Proverbs 4:23: "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

El Señor no tolera ni el orgullo ni la soberbia en sus criaturas. No se puede desafiar a Dios, ni pretender acercarse a los límites que ha establecido entre el Cielo y la Tierra.*

he aprendido que la tierra no es nada sin los hombres, que lo que importan son los seres humanos.

Even while he'd been gone, she'd always know he was /there/, sharing the same planet with her, walking the same earth.

Do you think that there is a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment? I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence. You are the bane of my existence, and the object of all my desires.