Green Earth Quotes - Page 4

• We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Character, Clothes, Mind

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• Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Light, Earth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Time, Appreciate, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Sports, Smart

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• The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

  Michael Parenti

  Nature, Money, Army

  "Against Empire". Book by Michael Parenti, May 1995.

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• ... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Dream, Lying, Fall

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• There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Rights, Silence

  "The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Susan B. Mine" by Sonja Livingston, therumpus.net. February 14, 2016.

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• There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

  Ivo Andric

  Dark, Men, Years

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• I am in love with the green earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Nature, Garden, Earth

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• Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Evil

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

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• I am in love with this green Earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Earth, Green

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.38

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• The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

  Richard DeVos

  God, Insightful, Earth

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• Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
  Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

  Jay-Z

  Inspirational, Rap, Hip Hop

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• If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Water, Forgiving, Enemy

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, Pride, Feelings

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• The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

  Edwin Markham

  Feet, Literature, Earth

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• My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

  Brett Somers

  Musical, Doe, Wonderful Person

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wine, Mountain, Cups

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Worship Of Nature”

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• Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blue, Sky, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.234

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• The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Victory, Earth, Green

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

  John Milton

  Running, Moon, Done

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1011-16.

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• There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

  Allen West

  Government, Black, Earth

  "Allen West: Liberals fear conservative blacks like me". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Eccentric, Mouths

  "A Prairie Home Companion". Radio show, December 13, 1997.

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• The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

  Edward Hoagland

  God, Dying, Earth

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Mountain, Green

  1798 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye', l.102-6.

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