Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. – Walter Lang
Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable. – Thuy Trang
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. – William Howard Taft
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. – Ted Williams
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it’s in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy. – Susan Orlean
The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude. – Zachary Taylor
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth. – Walter Kirn
To me, I think people who don’t think it’s a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they’re being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth. – Sophia Bush
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. – Zooey Deschanel
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. – Walt Whitman
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth – meaning mountains, cliffs. It’s for sure – for me – it’s the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references. – Ueli Gegenschatz
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality. – Simon Schama
I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can’t quit. I’m addicted. I’ve broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It’s my thing – there’s no high on earth like it. It’s my hobby and I really enjoy it. – Vanilla Ice
The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there. – Steven Squyres
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. – Susan B. Anthony
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. – Uri Geller
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building. – Victor LaValle
It is somewhat surprising that collections of the ‘hundred best books,’ which usually begin with the Bible and generally include Marcus Aurelius, should give no place to the Acts of the General Councils, though mere literary works have done little beyond filling vacant hours, and these Acts have renewed the face of the earth. – Vincent McNabb
Of course I would disagree that there’s a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth’s thermostat up and that we can turn the earth’s thermostat down at will, we just haven’t yet found the will. That’s the argument on climate change. – Steve King
That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it. – Thomas Shepard
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. – Stephen Hawking
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. – Thomas de Quincey