Earth Quotes

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

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.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

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.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.