Ovid Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Men

• By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
  A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
  And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

  Ovid

  Practice, Water, Use

• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Wine, Apples, Giving

• When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Eye, Animal

• Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Incentives

• The whole earth is the brave man's country.
  [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

  Ovid

  Country, Men, Brave

• The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
  The instigators; iron, foe to man,
  And gold, than iron deadlier.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Yield

• There is a god within us, and the heavens
  Have intercourse with earth; from realms above
  That spirit comes.

  Ovid

  God, Heaven, Earth

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