Earth Quotes

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words. Fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth.

Greater than all the joys of heaven and earth, Greater still than dominion over all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Love has earth to which she clings.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.