Earthly Quotes

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

As Lincoln ended his earthly journey in Springfield, so too we may end our national celebration there.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

The reason why I choose stones as the raw material for my art is the unique texture of the earthly creations burnished after tens of thousands of years. They are nature`s most refined works. And my job is to feel and bring out the life of this natural work of art.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

“We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!”