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Letter "D" » Down to Earth
«People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.»
Author: Carmen Electra
(Actress)
| Keywords:
Dalai, Dalai Lama, Down to Earth, Earth i, Friday, Friday Night, Lama, The Dalai Lama
«This is the way of it, sad earth over,The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,And the other learns to forget.For what is the use of endless sorrow?Though the sun goes down, it will rise to-morrow;And life is not over yet.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
| Keywords:
breaks, Down to Earth, endless, learns, morrow, Rising Sun, Sun rise, The Lover
«Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.»
Author: Natalie Goldberg
| About:
Stress
| Keywords:
basically, disconnection, Down to Earth, emergency, forgetting, lie down, stress
«How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Down to Earth, gladly, lap, mortality, mother Earth, sensible, sentence
«My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
balloon, balloons, confine, definition, Down to Earth, haul, hauled, hauling, haul up, holding, hold down, philosopher, ropes
«I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
atheist, conceive, conceives, conceiving, Down to Earth, earth, heavens, Heaven on Earth, look up, the Earth
«I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, administrations, affairs, conduct, Down to Earth, Earth i, every other, lay, lay down, power i, rein, reined, reins
«Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
brings, Down to Earth, holier-than-thou, holier, the Earth, thou
«No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Down to Earth, fall down, official, sacked, trade, trade union, Trade unions, union
«Brought down to earth»
Author: Proverb
| Keywords:
Down to Earth
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