Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Paul Johnson

The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.

C. S. Lewis

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Carl Sagan

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

John Felmy

That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s.

Marcus Samuelsson

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

Patti Smith

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

Petrarch

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Marcus Samuelsson

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

Patti Smith

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

Gloria Reuben

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

Dr. Glass

I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to occur, but you can't tell if it's going to occur this year or next year or the year after.

Stephen Becker

I think of it as an opportunity to talk about the earthquake using visual materials in a different way.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Kevin Garnett

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Stuart Appleby

We don't have that golden child. It's tricky at the moment because they're all waiting for someone to step out of the darkness.

Christopher Guest

I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita and half something else.

Danny Aiello

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John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,