Top 636 Earth Quotes

We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth – the mere scum of the earth.
Duke of Wellington
The main goal of the International Space Station is to work on peaceful projects. In space, we’re all people from Earth.
Sunita Williams
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark Twain
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; thoug

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
Francis Beaumont
The 50th Earth Day was always going to be special, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more so. The unprecedented steps the world has taken to slow the spread of the virus have dramatically reduced the number of cars on the road, planes in the air, and oil being pulled from the ground.
Deb Haaland
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
George Muller
Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.
Paul Rudd
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, ‘I know you’re there, pick up, pick up.
Craig Kilborn
I’m so down to earth, I’m bringing gravity back.
Tinie Tempah
America is the greatest country on Earth – and when people vote with their feet, they come here.
Michael Bloomberg
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
Sidney Sheldon
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth’s life cycle.
Michele Bachmann
Hot yoga is something that I forced myself to get into. When I first did it, I thought, ‘How on earth am I going to get through an hour and a half of this?’ because I was so hot.
Caroline Flack
If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine – it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
Jack Ma
Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?
Julia Butterfly Hill
Just as I wouldn’t expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won’t do debates with Young Earth creationists.
Richard Dawkins
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
Sidney Altman
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
Bob Brown
It’s my job, it’s what I do, it’s what I’m on earth to do and it’s who I am.
Peter O’Toole
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy Adams
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
We’re on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.
Sandra Faber
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It’s the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge – bus fridge and home fridge.
Eric Church
I’m at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham’s shoes, but I’m grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life’s work.
Franklin Graham
We are a plague on the Earth.
David Attenborough
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann G. Seume
The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.
Hannah Teter
I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida – the worst place on earth.
Eric Andre
The looters are using Google Earth, too. They’re coming in with metal detectors and geophysical equipment. Some ask me to confirm sites.
Sarah Parcak
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour – understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
Martin Rees
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
bell hooks
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Ellen DeGeneres
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
Johnny Weir
I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that’s a completely different thing. I’ve written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.
Dinesh D’Souza
Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
Radhanath Swami
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Ted Williams
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns – perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.
Martin Clunes
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
Alvar Aalto
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
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln
If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
Bill Ackman
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind’s search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Myles Munroe
I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
John Shelby Spong
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
John Wesley
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I’m not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I’m talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.
David Icke
Let’s face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Henry Louis Gates
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth’s history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
Harry Johnston
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
Kip Thorne
Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa
If you’re just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).
Jean Chatzky