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Earth Quotes


"It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere."


"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."


"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."


"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."


"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."


"Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly."


"A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven."



"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."


"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."


"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."


"On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures."


"It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed."


"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out."


"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."


"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."


"Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth."


"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"


"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth."


"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."


"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."


"How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security."


"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color."


"Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth."


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



"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."


"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany."
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