Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka Austrian Poet More Franz Kafka Quotes 54
But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. Sally Ride American Astronaut More Sally Ride Quotes 8
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings American Comedian More Josh Billings Quotes 7
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan Canadian Sociologist More Marshall McLuhan Quotes 6
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. Samuel Butler British Poet More Samuel Butler Quotes 4
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. Sally Ride American Astronaut More Sally Ride Quotes 4
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. Zig Ziglar American Speaker More Zig Ziglar Quotes 3
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 3
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers American Actor More Will Rogers Quotes 3
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Marcus Aurelius Roman Emperor More Marcus Aurelius Quotes 3
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. Margaret Thatcher English Leader More Margaret Thatcher Quotes 3
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. Meryl Streep American Actress More Meryl Streep Quotes 3
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. Ellen G. White American Writer More Ellen G. White Quotes 2
There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true. Bartolomeo Vanzetti More Bartolomeo Vanzetti Quotes 2
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. Helen Gahagan Douglas American More Helen Gahagan Douglas Quotes 2
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. Rabindranath Tagore Indian Poet More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes 2
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 1
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa Albanian Nun More Mother Teresa Quotes 1
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth. Sandra Bernhard More Sandra Bernhard Quotes 1
Of all the husbands on the earth, The sailor has the finest berth, For in 'is cabin he can sit, And sail and sail and let 'er knit. Wallace Irwin American Writer More Wallace Irwin Quotes 1
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. Walt Whitman Poet Poet More Walt Whitman Quotes 1