Quotes with earth-shattering

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  • A. D. Hope Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Imperial Adam (l. 42-44)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • John Updike Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Arnold Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Oscar Wilde Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Ayn Rand Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lord George Byron Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Shirley Chisholm Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Muhammad Ali Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • D. H. Lawrence Sex goes through the rhythm of the year, in man and woman, ceaselessly changing: the rhythm of the sun in his relation to the earth.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Barbara Boxer Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • James Baldwin Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Barry McGee Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Benjamin Tucker Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Robert Browning Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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