Planet Quotes

"As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water"

Loren Eiseley, Scientist

"We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything"

Michael Berryman, Actor

"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet"

Jack Herer, Activist

"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet"

William Wiley, Soldier

"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country"

Simon Hoggart, Journalist

"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!"

Denise Crosby, Actress

"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it"

James Daly, Actor

"I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck"

Tre Cool, Musician

"We seem to think we have some control over this planet"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

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