Quotes of: Down-to-earth Keyword

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

John Fowles

Klaatu: We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

Afrika Bambaataa

This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ... If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.

Arthur Tofte

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Bob Brown

Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to earthworms. Their work may seem unspectacular at first. They don't chirp or sing, they don't gallop or soar, they don't hunt or m...

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Life on earth can never be fully understood. Life and all it holds is too big for humans to understand. There is the possibility for more joy than they ever comprehend and there is the same possibility of pain and suffering. Humans have embraced pain...

I Call Myself Earth Girl

Seek out the company of those who will never ask you to jump," the earth advised. Bertie remembered the rush of feathers as she soared above the audience. "I can catch myself." "Of those whose love will never fill your lungs with water-" the earth ar...

Perchance to Dream

Fragmentary Blue Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)-- Though some sav...

Robert Frost

We humans who art on Earth Humanity is special Our kingdom has come Do what we innately know to be right On earth, because that's all there is Share the bread we have Try not to screw up When others screw up, understand We can't have everything that ...

Marcus Brigstocke

All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment.

French

All the treasures of the earth can't bring back one lost moment.

French

The earth is God's bride -- she feeds the living and cherishes the dead.

Malagasy

A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Many textbooks point out that no animal has evolved wheels and cite the fact as an example of how evolution is often incapable of finding the optimal solution to an engineering problem. But it is not a good example at all. Even if nature could have e...

How the Mind Works

There are two kinds of people on earth today, Two kinds of people no more I say. Not the good or the bad, for it's well understood, The good are half bad, the bad are half good. Not the happy or sad, for in the swift-flying years, Bring each man his ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

Great Ship of Knowledge: Learning Earth's Deathly History

I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth

The Guardians of the Earth Type Planets

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Ben Nicholson

I’m probably the last person on earth who will tell you I want to be the last person on earth.

$3.33

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

The Silver Chair