#earth

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dead #earth #living

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#earth #god #heaven #hereafter #i

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#heaven #pieces

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#divine #earth #escape #evil #given

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#development #earth #had #increased #knowledge

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. ↗

— George Sand

#bought #brows #earth #far #having

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#because #earth #like #men #moon

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword? ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#end #generations #life #our #sword