Quotes with down-to-earth

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  • Rosa Parks I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lou Holtz I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Bruno Mars I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Robert Benchley I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Albert Einstein I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alice Walker I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Action Bronson I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
    Action Bronson
    American rapper (1983 - )
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  • Buddy Rice I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Pearl S. Buck I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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