Quotes About Earth

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

Felt-tip markers, always a scarce resource even on Earth, became objects of great value as people used them to mark directions on the walls of hamster tubes and habitat modules.

There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a perfectly detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at arm's length in front of his eyes. Hiro has heard about this but never seen it. It is a piece of CIC software called, simply, Earth. It is the user interface that CIC uses to keep track of every bit of spatial information that it owns—all the maps, weather data, architectural plans, and satellite surveillance stuff.

Hiro looks up, focuses his gaze on Earth, zooms in for a look. As he gets closer, the imagery he's looking at shifts from the long-range pictures coming in from the geosynchronous satellites to the good stuff being spewed into the CIC computer from a whole fleet of low-flying spy birds. The view he's looking at is a mosaic of images shot no more than a few hours ago.

This one was called Ark Madiba, after a Moiran biologist of the Fourth Millennium who had in turn been named in memory of a hero of Old Earth.

So now, when the people of Earth looked up into the night sky at the place where they ought to have seen the moon, they saw instead this slowly tumbling constellation of white boulders.

First, I must be getting the money on my side, because after magic wanes money is the most powerful thing on earth (followed by weapons that destroy whole cities in a go, and religion—that never goes away, damn it!—and lastly, female actors who do not wear much clothing).

terraform Earth before we get distracted by Mars

You are totally overromanticizing dirt.