Quotes with down-to-earth

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  • T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Springsteen For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
    The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bob Brown For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Alice Walker For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Bo Burnham For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Callie Khouri For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Anne Tyler For me, writing something down was the only road out.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bob Schieffer For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Schwartz For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Samuel Butler For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bettie Page For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Solomon For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
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  • Kahlil Gibran Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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