There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the — Katherine Anne Porter
The philosophers of the middle ages demonstrated both that the earth did not exist and — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. — Richard Dawkins
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. — John Jay Chapman
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. — John Updike
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on earth. — Vernor Vinge
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise. — Shoeless Joe Jackson
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. — Richard Bach
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. — Rebecca West
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence — Jean de La Bruyere
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger — Jawaharlal Nehru
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau