Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest of humanity into the Age of Aquarius.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
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.
It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.
