Connection to Earth Quotes

"Whatever you do in your life you’re going to be comparing with jiu jitsu."

- Roberto Cyborg Abreu

"How is jiu-jitsu a lifestyle? People don’t understand that until they actually walk into the doors, put their gi in, jump on the mat and get bit by the bug."

- Roberto Cyborg Abreu

"When you’re on the mat rolling around with somebody and drilling with somebody, training with somebody, getting to know somebody, and just in physical contact with these people every single day there’s only one thing to do and that’s to bond. You know you make this friendship, you make this brotherhood, and you’re making each other better every day. You’re helping each other, you’re picking each other up."

- Jared Weiner

"Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran up stairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation’s Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us."

- Former Secretary of State John Kerry

"I draw from the crowd a lot."

- Kobe Bryant

"I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles."

- Nelson Mandela

"Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common."

- Sarah Dessen

"The Earth is what we all have in common."

- Wendell Berry

"No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots."

- Maya Angelou

"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."

- Terry Tempest Williams

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect."

- Chief Seattle

"The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"The incredible beauty of the earth as seen from space results largely from the fact that our planet is covered with living things."

- René Dubos

"The earth is a tiny and fragile world. It needs to be cherished."

- Carl Sagan

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Kahlil Gibran

"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live."

- Sylvia Earle

"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I’m the same thing."

- Alice Walker

"In nature, nothing exists alone."

- Rachel Carson

"Some people have lives; some people have music."

- John Green

"The world’s most famous and popular language is music."

- PSY

"People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has."

- Taylor Swift

"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."

- Edgar Winter

"That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons."

- Dave Grohl

"Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung."

- David Levithan

"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."

- Sitting Bull

"I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn’t a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America."

- John Madden

"EMTs are privileged to play in life’s great game. Too many unlucky people watch the action thunder by, stuck at a desk, or watching it on television at home."

- Kelly Grayson

"Appreciation is the melody that fills the silence of indifference with the harmony of connection."

- Caleb Adams

"Acknowledgment is the greatest form of currency in the realm of human connection."

- Unknown