Earth Quotes - Page 143

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

New earths, new themes expect us.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.