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“Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!”
John Muir (1838–1914) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1872(?), page 99
“With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. From the middle of it a man may ride for a year eastward or westward without reaching its limits. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you. Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.”
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) said by 1227 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy (1940) by Michael Prawdin, p. 224
“I've never done good things I've never done bad things I never did anything out of the blue, whoa whoa Want an axe to break the ice Wanna come down right now Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low. My mama said to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom”
David Bowie (1947–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look up here, I’m in heaven I’ve got scars that can’t be seen I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen Everybody knows me now Look up here, man, I’m in danger I’ve got nothing left to lose I’m so high it makes my brain whirl Dropped my cell phone down below Ain’t that just like me”
David Bowie (1947–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was worried lest during his late discontent he had imperiled his salvation. He was not quite sure there was a Heaven to be attained, but Dr. John Jennison said there was, and Babbitt was not going to take a chance. ~ Ch. 34”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to being quoted William Shakespeare's statement from Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy." As quoted in When God is Gone Everything Is Holy: The Making Of …
“Bathe your eyes in images Divine, All Heaven unfolds, the opposites combine. Your eyes become temple domes for the Pleides Crystalline mandalas inhabited by Deities. Blessing every moment you see As glimpses of eternity.”
“The first half-dozen or so will be nice, but after that, I'm going to want a pro. (Referring to the Muslim concept of achieving 72 virgins upon arrival in heaven).”
Dennis Miller (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
Mitt Romney (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.”
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.”
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jay's favorite line: 'Dawg, in due time!' Now he look at me, like, 'Damn, dawg! You where I am!' A hip hop legend I think I died in that accident, 'cause this must be heaven.”
Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're my devil, you're my angel You're my heaven, you're my hell You're my now, you're my forever You're my freedom, you're my jail You're my lies, you're my truth You're my war, you're my truce You're my questions, you're my proof You're my stress and you're my masseuse Run from the lights, run from the night, run for your life.”
Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.”
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Natural, reckless, correct skill; Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.”
Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Ikkyū and The Crazy Cloud Anthology : A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (1986) by Sonja Arntzen.
“All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.”
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) said by 1772 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.”
Little Richard (1932–2020) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Yesterdays : Popular Song in America (1979), by Charles Hamm, p. 391
“Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven produces more digits than twenty-two divided by seven.”
Immortal Technique (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty.”
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) said by 1543 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to Book 1, as quoted/translated by Edward Rosen, Nicholas Copernicus on the Revolutions (1978) ed. Jerzy Dobrzycki, Edward Rosen.
“Without going out of your door, You can know all things on earth. Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Inner Light (song) (1968), On Transcendental Meditation and teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“How it should be in Heaven I know, for I was there. By its river. Listening to its birds. In its season: in summer, shortly after sunrise. I would get up and run to my thousand works And the garden was superterrestrial, owned by imagination.”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How It Should Be in Heaven" (1986), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz and Robert Hass
“HBO used to do a thing in Bryant Park where you'd face the library, and they would have comics on-stage, live, and no censorship (during afternoons in the summer). … And it's spectacular to be able to yell the word fuck and throw it out and have it hit the library and bounce back at you. … It's really—it's like heaven.”
Lewis Black (born 1948) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From his interview with Kevin Pollak for the documentary film Misery Loves Comedy (2015)
“I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Still an atheist at the time] For Heaven's sake...sorry, perhaps I should have said something else.”
Antony Flew (1923–2010) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Craig Vs Flew, University of Wisconsin, 1st January 1998
“DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?”
Morrissey (born 1959) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from "Homme alone 2" by David Keeps, Details (December 1992)
“I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I danced in the morning When the world was begun, And I danced in the moon And the stars and the sun, And I came down from heaven And I danced on the earth, At Bethlehem I had my birth.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank heaven that we don’t get all of the government that we are made to pay for.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in the House of Lords, (Nov. 24, 1994), also in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotes, Third Edition, Elizabeth Knowles, edit., Oxford University Press (2007) p. 124
“Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shelley was kicked out of Oxford—I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares—because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Biblical words about the genesis of heaven and earth are not words of information but words of appreciation. The story of creation is not a description of how the world came into being but a song about the glory of the world's having come into being.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wisdom of Heschel (1970), p. 150
“All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110
“And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill.Don't the sun look angry through the trees? Don't the trees look like crucified thieves? Don't you feel like Desperados under the eaves? Heaven help the one who leaves.”
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We contemplate eternity Beneath the vast indifference of heaven.”
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If this is heaven ahm bailin' out!”
“Someday," I told Jan, "when they demonstrate that the world has four dimensions instead of just three, a man will be able to go for a walk and just disappear. No burial, no tears, no illusions, no heaven or hell. People will be sitting around and they'll say, 'What happened to George?' And somebody will say, 'Well, I don't know. He said he was going out for a pack of cigarettes.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, sent this quotation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936, in a note of New Year greetings, with this comment: "Here is an expression from Holmes which, if it has mi…
“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Working with the [Seinfeld] cast was pure heaven for me. We were as well suited to each other as it seems when you watch the show.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather .... Could the situation be that we no long believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.”
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation—the great peaks of honour we had forgotten—Duty, Patriotism, and—clad in glittering white—the great pinnacle of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Queen's Hall, London (19 September 1914), quoted in The Times (20 September 1914), p. 4
“[The Labour government] flung away the opportunity. They flung away a Heaven-given opening. What for? Not in order to emancipate the land, not in order to find work for the unemployed, not in order to build homes for the houseless, but in order to commit the taxation of this country to a gigantic loan to a number of fanatical visionaries who are ruining the great land of Russia.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Pembroke Dock (23 October 1924), quoted in The Times (24 October 1924), p. 16
“This is not the time to add one torch to the flame of discontent in this land. I speak with solemnity, watching what is going on in the industrial centres. For Heaven's sake, do not let us drive the farm labourer into the ranks of those in rebellion against society.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Killerton Park, near Exeter, opening the Liberal land campaign (17 September 1925), quoted in The Times (18 September 1925), p. 14