Connection to Earth Quotes

"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."

- Barack Obama

"In the end, there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."

- Robert Brault

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

- C.S. Lewis

"May we all have a vision now and then, of a world where every neighbor is a friend. Happy New Year."

- ABBA

"Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball."

- Pete Rose

"From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other."

- Emily Matthews

"Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished."

- Jim Sensenbrenner

"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit."

- John Denver

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole Earth."

- Bahá’u’lláh

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something."

- Sam Rivers

"Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you."

- Trey Anastasio

"It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians."

- Dan Fogelberg

"Only when we act without judgment can we truly flourish in our lives. Yoga means becoming one. As long as we stand apart in judgment, we sabotage the opportunity for connection and integration that is yoga. So I encourage you: get into that canoe and ride with the river. Commit and don’t look back. Before our bodies can open, they must first let go; the clenched and guarded muscles must relax. But the mind must let go first."

- Rolf Gates

"E.T. phone home."

- E.T.

""Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.""

- Anthony Bourdain

""The best way to know a city is to eat it.""

- Scott Westerfeld

""You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere.""

- Miriam Adeney

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

- Winston Churchill

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."

- Lois Lowry

"Grandpa got us up early, otherwise we might miss something. Sunsets, he loved ’em. Made us love ’em."

- Lucille Ball

"One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather."

- Joy Hargrove

"When I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe."

- Tayeb Salih

"For God is with those who are mindful of Him and who do good."

- Quran 16:128

"Behind every good business is a great accountant."

"Good accounting is the soul of business."

"Friends like you are rare, and so I am the lucky one."

"That moment when you’re asked where you got something and you answer with the name of the country, not the name of the store."

"And remember the favor of Allah upon you – when you were enemies and He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers."