- Nov 07, 2020
Earth Quotes
One planet, endless reasons to notice it.
A couple of these frame caring for the earth as an old, ongoing responsibility rather than a new idea. For a related environmental date, see our Earth Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bows
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our planet is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever get to know them. They say these creatures are so intelligent. They may disappear from the face of the Earth before we know them, and that is a great tragedy.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.
- Effecting
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- Nov 07, 2020