I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the Great

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats