Connection to Earth Quotes

"We're in France, in Paris, and I love assimilating to different cultures and whatnot. I know this is about as stereotypical as you can get … I've already had a bunch of croissants and baguettes too, I just didn't carry them with me to the game."

- Jason Kelce

"That's what's so cool about this week, this tournament and this whole event, it makes you feel like you're part of something bigger than just golf. Walking around in the [Olympic] Village, the sports nerd in me loves it."

- Ludvig Aberg

"I don't know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, coloring the rock layers until it's gone and the canyon is covered in shadow."

- Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

- Marshall McLuhan

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Each of us all have that sense of exploration and a desire to continue to push the limits of what humans are capable of. And I think that is something that unites us."

- Jessica Watkins

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It’s an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me. Everything they become, I also become. And everything about me, they helped to create."

- Esme Raji Codell

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

- Anais Nin

"Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. And what you realize when you've lived with a cat for a long time is that we may think we own them, but that's not the way it is. They simply allow us the pleasure of their company."

- Genki Kawamura

"The Hardcore Do Understand."

- Tigress

"Don’t be afraid to ask for the help you need, whether it is an errand or a hand to hold – your friends and family really do want to help in any way they can."

- Gary Breslow, MD, FACS

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

- Dean Koontz

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

- Euripides

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

- Aristotle

"Play helps build a warm relationship between family members and create a bank of positive feelings and experiences that can be drawn upon in times of conflict. Through play, you can help your children solve problems, test out ideas, and explore their imaginations."

- Carolyn Webster-Stratton

"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."

- M. F. K. Fisher

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?"

- Karen Blixen

"The water is your friend…..you don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move."

- Alexandr Popov

"Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature."

- Janet Echelman

"The water is your friend…you don’t have to fight the water, just share the same spirit as the water and it will help you move."

- Alexandr Popov

"It’s okay and it could be worse. Your kid is going to get through it, and you’re going to get through it. Everybody is going to be happy, healthy and normal having gone through it. Just hang in there. There are people going through exactly what you’re going through, and every once in a while, I’ve had to hear that echoed back to me to realize that I’m not doing this in a vacuum–that I’m not the only one out there."

- Mother

"Wednesday will never be lonely when it has days all around it."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Let your soul reconnect with nature. Watch a sunset, play in the ocean, walk barefoot on the grass. Feel your ties to the Universe."

"Even though we’re miles apart, I’m celebrating your special day in spirit. Happy Birthday, my dear friend! Can’t wait until we can celebrate together."

"Distance may separate us, but it could never diminish our friendship. Wishing you a wonderful birthday filled with all the love and happiness you deserve."

"An eclipse is a fleeting conversation between earth and sky."

"Even when we’re apart...we are connected."

"Wishing you a Sunday of divine connections, as God aligns you with the right people."

"You are not alone in this. Everyone experiences stress from time to time. Reach out to your support system for help."