Globes Quotes - Page 2

• Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Earth, Fossils

  "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth". Book by Georges Cuvier, 1825.

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• Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

  James Hutton

  Science, Past, History

  "Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Book published by Royal Society of Edinburgh, "Theory of the Earth", 1785.

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• Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

  Amy Poehler

  Beautiful, People, Television

  "70th Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  Mac Thornberry

  Winning, Two, America

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• The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

  Rufus King

  Law, Mankind, All Time

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• Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

  Bill Frist

  Sound, Relation, Trade

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• Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Guy, Why Not, Salad

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• The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Communication, Community, Together

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• I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

  Sharon Stone

  Awards, Careers, Golden

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• Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Gambling, People, Population

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Dark, Destiny, Men

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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  Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

  Sam Houston

  Country, Texas, Natural

  Sam Houston (1940). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Winning, Feelings, Nominations

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• It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it: Breakfast.

  Ricky Gervais

  Party, Drinking, Night

  "Emmy Award Winners 2011: Ricky Gervais 'Banned' From Attending" by Luiza Oleszczuk, www.christianpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Greed, Humanity, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Patriotic, Men

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Good Luck, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Latin, Earthquakes, Numbers

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• As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

  Bob Beauprez

  People, Holocaust, Suffering

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• A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Communication, Mean, Ideas

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• One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

  Juvenal

  Youthful Arrogance

  Juvenal (1967). “The Sixteen Satires”

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, War, Eyelashes

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• A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Doubt, Substance, Golden

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Stars

  Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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