Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.
Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.
Frank Alexander: Who on Earth could that be? Mrs. Alexander: I'll go and see.
Narrator: Downtown Hohman was preparing for this yearly baccanalia of peace on Earth and goodwill to men.
John Oldman: Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons.
[last lines] Sandy: You never saw your own child die... John Oldman: No.
Edith: You think that's all religion is about... selling hope and survival?
John Oldman: Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.
[first lines] Dan: Hey buddy, you don't waste time, do you?
John Rooney: Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
