Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? (Quote by - Caroline Norton)

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and the smallest minority on earth is the individual. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. (Quote by - George Orwell)

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. (Quote by - Neil Armstrong)

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. (Quote by - George Washington)

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. (Quote by - Chanakya)

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. (Quote by - Juvenal)

Di Stefano was manufactured on earth, Pele was made in heaven. (Quote by - Geoffrey Green)

So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! (Quote by - Trey Parker)

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth. (Quote by - George Crane)

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)