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“...the claims made by many nowadays that any manifestation of hatred against Jews in any geographic location on Earth and in any historical period is "anti-Semitism" smacks of a gross misunderstanding of the European history of anti-Semitism.”
Joseph Massad (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Massad, in "Semites and anti-Semites, that is the question," Al-Ahram, 2004
“Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1653 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeremy Taylor, "Apples of Sodom," Part II, Sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
Also quoted by: Anatole France (misattributed)
“God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the Right, through thickest night, Till the man-brute Wrong be driven From high places; till the Right Shall lift like some grand beacon light. For the Right! Love, Right and duty; Lift the world up, though you fall Heaped with dead before the wall; God can find a soul of beauty Where it falls, as gems of worth Are found by miners dark in earth.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We plant this stone as some small seed Is sown at springtime, warm with earth; We sow this seed as some good deed Is sown, to grow until its worth Shall grow, through rugged steeps of time, To touch the God-built stars sublime.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobody out here was going to find an alternative here to Earth’s tiresome clash of selfish individualisms and stifling collectivisms.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death. Who owns all of space? Death.”
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.”
Temple Grandin (born 1947) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition).Westminster, MD, USA: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006.
“Was it not the most wonderful thing on earth to be able to help one's fellow-creatures? I now knew that it was the only thing that was worth while.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything is love. "HEAVEN ON EARTH" our idea of heaven has been formed by painting and nothing else. I love pure, bright colours, their intellectual clarity of expression conveying nothing but feeling. Painting - the inspired animation of the surface.”
Stefan Szczesny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Er fiel im Oktober 1918, an einem Tage, der so ruhig und still war an der ganzen Front, daß der Heeresbericht sich nur auf den Satz beschränkte, im Westen sei nichts Neues zu melden. Er war vornübergesunken und lag wie …
“The human vocation is to realize that which constitutes man's raison d’être: a projection of God and, therefore, a bridge between earth and Heaven; or a point of view that allows God to see Himself starting from an other-than-Himself, even though this other, in the final analysis, can only be Himself, for God is known only through God.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heels of small war—until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime.”
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.”
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.”
Russell Conwell (1843–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Looper's] sort of a down-to-earth Blade Runner: it feels real. It's that style of sci-fi that could actually exist in 30 years.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Los Angeles Times, 2012
“I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reddit , September 12, 2013
“The End of the Life of Mankind on Earth is this,—that in this Life they may order all their relations with FREEDOM according to REASON.”
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) said by 1814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Earth is less fragrant now, and heaven more sweet.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eleanor: I'm tired, John, am asking you to keep this charade mercifully brief... for my sake if not for your own. John: For your sake? There was a time when I'd have done anything on God's Earth for you, just to get to acknowledge I was even alive! But now? You're too late, Mother, years too late!”
Sharon Kay Penman (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.”
John Hagee (born 1940) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Free Is Freedom?" (July 2, 2006)
“Whenever single people complain about anything, I really want them to shut the fuck up. First of all, if you’re single, your life has no consequence on the earth. Even if you’re helping people aggressively, which you’re fucking not, nobody gives a shit what happens to you. You can die, and it actually doesn’t matter. It doesn’t. Your mother will cry or whatever, but otherwise, nobody gives a shit.”
Louis C.K. (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're sent from heaven And I know your worth. You made a heaven for me here on the earth. When I'm old and grey, dear, Promise you won't stray, dear, For I love you so, Sonny Boy.”
Buddy de Sylva (1895–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fade, fade, each earthly joy; Jesus is mine! Break every earthly tie; Jesus is mine; Dark is the wilderness; Earth has no resting-place; Jesus alone can bless; Jesus is mine.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue. Be what thou seemest; live thy creed; Hold up to earth the torch divine; Be what thou prayest to be made; Let the great Master's steps be thine.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.”
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: America and Cosmic Man (New York: Doubleday, [1948] 1949) p. 21.
“The City of Giraffes!—a People Who live between the earth and skies, Each in his lone religious steeple, Keeping a light-house with his eyes.”
Roy Campbell (poet) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dreaming Spires", l. 45 (1946)
“The timeless, surly patience of the serf That moves the nearest to the naked earth And ploughs down palaces, and thrones, and towers.”
Roy Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Farewell the hope that mocked, farewell despair That went before me still and made the pace. The earth is full of graves, and mine was there Before my life began; my resting-place.”
John Davidson (poet) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Last Journey", from The Testament of dick peter (London: Grant Richards, 1908) p. 146
“But I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crost— All loves and honors lost,— To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth.”
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Possibly there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, he burned his first ever pair of shoes, because when he was a kid, the Earth was still hot. Thats how old he is!”
Harry Hill (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.”
Mehmed Talat (1874–1921) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After the German Ambassador persistently brought up the Armenian question in 1918. Quoted in The History of the Armenian Genocide (2003) by Vahakn N. Dadrian, p. 211
“If there's a sword-like sang That can cut Scotland clear O a' the warld beside Rax me the hilt o't here.For there's nae jewal till Frae the rest o earth it's free, Wi the starry separateness I'd fain to Scotland gie.”
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.”
Christopher Moore (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth! And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth.”
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: O little Town of Bethlehem, 2nd stanza (1868).
“When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Coming People (1897).
“I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'Tis less of earth than heaven.”
Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Settle it therefore in your minds, as a maxim never to be effaced or forgotten, that atheism is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious system, equally hostile to every useful restraint and to every virtuous affection; that, leaving nothing above us to excite awe, nor round us to awaken tenderness, it wages war with heaven and with earth: its first object is to dethrone God, its next to destroy man.”
Robert Hall (1764–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away.”
Robert Hall (1764–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's a 7.76mm round, you idiots, if you fire it into the air it comes to earth you know not where, like on some little kid's soft-skulled head, and that's the end of the kid. They're too stupid to even figure that much out.”
John Dolan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,— That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) first seen 1813 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On a Tear (c. 1813-5), ll. 21-4
“Oh ! She was good as she was fair, None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her.”
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our pleasant earth below Like the heaven above.”
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (1823–1908) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Little Things" (1845) as quoted in Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson. These were the final words o…
“Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.”
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversations with Wole Soyinka (2001)
“It’s my life that’s gone into his. I haven’t burrowed so deep to cast good earth onto worthless seeds….”
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”
Kate Chopin (1850–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
Kate Chopin (1850–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sun of my soul! thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near: Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes!”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The believer is no burden to his God, and even if you should be carrying whole mountains of care and solicitude, they will not make you more burdensome or your case more difficult to the Creator of the ends of the earth. He fainteth not, neither is weary.”
James Hamilton (1814–1871) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source