Earth Quotes

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
-Albert Einstein

"Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."
-Albert Einstein

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, 'Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.'"
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."
-Marya Mannes

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
-Neil Armstrong

"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers."
-Archibald Macleish

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
-Wendell Berry

"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
-Norman R. Augustine

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
-Joseph Wood Krutch

"The Earth is slow."
-Eduardo Chillida

"Earth is dearer than gold."
-Estonian Proverb

"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!"
-Henry David Thoreau

"...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
-Abraham Lincoln

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."
-George Bernard Shaw

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. "
-George Bernard Shaw

"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
-William Shakespeare

"If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place."
-Aldous Huxley

"But did thee feel the earth move?"
-Ernest Hemingway

"Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man."
-Ausonius

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
-John Updike

"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
-G. K. Chesterton

"If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him."
-Chinese Proverb

"I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth."
-William Faulkner

"The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them."
-Ayn Rand

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
-C. S. Lewis

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
-Robert Browning