#earth

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#earth #forget #immortal #man #mortal

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#below #character #christianity #cradle #death

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #exist #human #human life #i

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. ↗

— Dr. Dre

#earth #hardworking #most #people #strongest

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#earth #endowed #figure #lives #man

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#earth #edge #faith #fall #fallen

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. ↗

— Black Elk

#center #earth #hoop #i #nation

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

To see you naked is to recall the Earth. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#naked #recall #see #you