Quotes with earth-shattering

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  • Edwin Markham The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Abraham Cowley The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
    And drinks, and gapes for drink again;
    The plants suck in the earth, and are
    With constant drinking fresh and fair.
    From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carl Sagan The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
    Cosmos (1980) 221
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Byron Dorgan The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Jean Paul Getty The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Dickens There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • T. S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
    Hamlet II, 5
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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