#earth

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

It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#drop #earth #employed #everything #existed

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#basic #colleagues #constitution #democracy #earth

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

— Dr. Dre

#earth #hardworking #most #people #strongest

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#constantly #coupled #earth #erosion #found

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