Globes Quotes - Page 12

• Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, America, Wells

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure every child's needs are met.

  Katie Couric

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moon, Night, Sky

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The Catholic church is the biggest financial power,    wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a    greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution,    corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole    globe.

  Avro Manhattan

  Government, Catholic, Church

  Avro Manhattan (1972). “The Vatican billions: two thousand years of wealth accumulation from St. Peter to the space age”

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• Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

  Melody Carlson

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Notes from a Spinning Planet--Mexico”, p.225, WaterBrook

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• Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

  Herman Melville

  Texas, Sea, Two

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.70, Velvet Element Books

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• In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Interesting, Lucky

  Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seelig, (p. 80), 1956.

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.

  Alison Pick

  Snow, Things Change, Shakes

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• Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

  James Forten

  Country, Dark, People

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• I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

  Ward Connerly

  Believe, Important, Might

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• The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Needs, Communist Manifesto

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

  Doug Bandow

  America, People, Enemy

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• It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Elements

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

  Zadie Smith

  Bags, Easier, Hoover

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.196, Vintage

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• Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Bodybuilding, College

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• There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Sex, Politics, Today

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• Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Learning, Science, Land

  "Our Mobile Earth". Book by Reginald Aldworth Daly, Chapter I, p. 5, 1926.

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• Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

  Karen Russell

  Loss, Evil, Spinning

  "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds, Weather, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

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• There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Acres, Bloodshed

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• When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

  Gore Vidal

  Race, Order, Years

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

  Herbert Spencer

  Writing, Science, Europe

  "Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions".

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