Earth
Definition: The planet on which we live; the world. Connect (an electrical device) with the ground.
Number of Quotes: 19
Count that day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
Franklin P. Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in
providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural
equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy Adams
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Our wrangling lawyers ... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
Robert Burton
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our
children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens
When the meek inherit the earth, lawyers will be there to work out the deal.
Sam Ewing
Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939.
Lou Gehrig
When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each
other...there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a
union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven...This is the love which you inspire in me.
Victor Hugo
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
In the Harbor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption,
setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Evo Morales
For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their
native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Pericles
Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
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