#planet

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#considerate #continues #day #every #every day

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#come #corporations #freedom #goes #half

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well. ↗

— John Oates

#competitive #found #general #i #most

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ↗

— Barack Obama

#come #devastate #famine #lands #leave

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#accepted #alive #because #being #different

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ↗

— Paracelsus

#earth #elements #extract #firmament #little

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#beautiful #desolation #hard #i #i think

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#been #carried #common #common sense #courage

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way. ↗

— Della Reese

#am #angels #been #come #could

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm. ↗

— Susan Rice

#arsenals #harm #nuclear #nuclear arsenals #others