Quotes About Earth

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.

How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who's taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the earth: the former because the appetite of union of dense bodies with the earth, in respect of the distance, is more dull: the latter, because the body hath in part attained its nature when it is some depth in the earth. { Foreshadowing Isaac Newton 's Universal Law of Gravitation (1687)}

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

A rainbow of soil is under our feet; red as a barn and black as peat. It's yellow as lemon and white as the snow; bluish gray. So many colors below. Hidden in darkness as thick as the night; The only rainbow that can form without light. Dig you a pit, or bore you a hole, you'll find enough colors to well rest your soil.

The moment that a child can walk, like that in which it first can talk, is a precious start of exploration into landscapes of creation. Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking on the earth. By sense of touch the feet assess the nature of the wilderness of earth beneath; yet human speech cannot express what feet can teach. Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking on the earth.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

Old, he included himself in his scorn for those who young want the opposite of this earth then settle for more of it.

Oliver Cromwell chose not to bring his marauders over here because one of his generals had reported that the country west of the Shannon contained "not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him.

You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, ...: in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

Stars are out and there is sea enough beneath the glistening earth to bear me toward the future which is not so dark. I see.

Well, I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it.

They can only burrow a few metres deep.

Imagine an alien spaceship lowering cameras to Earth. Each captures only a few square metres at a time. The first zooms in on the Kalahari desert. The second takes a snap of the Mongolian steppes. A third is lowered over Antarctica, and the fourth hovers over a city and films just a few square metres of grass and a dog peeing up against a tree. What impression would the aliens have? No sign of intelligent life, though primitive life-forms are sporadically present.

The history of life unfolds over a time span so vast it boggles the imagination. I, for one, can draw no meaning from a million years, let alone a billion, and prefer a geographical metric. Let 1 millimeter, the thickness of a dime, stand for 1 year. Then 1 meter makes a millennium, 1 kilometer 1 million years, and the age of the earth (about 4.5 billion years) spans 4,500 kilometers, a little more than the distance between Miami and Seattle. As

Count the day won when, turning on its axis, This earth imposes no additional taxes.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break his chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth be found!

Delve in! The year's before us; Spring's promise fills the air. Descendants of Antæus, The brown earth's touch can free us, Renew us and restore us, From the hand o' carking care.

I reckon failure to be the most universal unhappiness on earth. Almost everybody and everything are failures—failures in their own estimation, even if they are not so in the estimation of others. Those optimists who always think themselves successful are few in number, and they for the most part fail in this at least, namely, that they cannot persuade the rest of the world of their success.

Sabes, mi cielo, que llueves en mí y yo, como la tierra, te recibo.