Quotes with earth-shaking

Quotes 121 till 140 of 499.

  • Alexander the Great Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Richard Bach Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Richard Bach Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • John Milton How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • John 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
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ace Frehley I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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