Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
George Crumb

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
Lafcadio Hearn

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Ernst Haeckel

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
Lara St. John

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
Rudolf Arnheim

We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
Eden Ahbez

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
Franklin Pierce