Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindsay Fox

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Alexander McQueen

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

Alexander Pope

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Alexander Pope

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

Alex Grey

I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth

E. O. Wilson

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

E. O. Wilson

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

Donald Cargill

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

Dalai Lama

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Dogen

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Desmond Tutu

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

Desmond Tutu

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Desmond Tutu

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

Chuck D.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

Chuck D.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth...

Christopher Paolini

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - Valdr

Christopher Marlowe

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Daniel Dennett

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

Darren Criss

Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.

Dave Attell

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

David Harvey

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

Curt Siodmak

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

Corey Taylor

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

Ann Voskamp

But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.

Annie Dillard

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

Anna Quindlen

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Chynna Phillips

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

Ann Aguirre

Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those that listen.

Storm Jameson

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.