People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. 

We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

The synthesis of pure calming food is breathing pure air, listening to good sounds, looking at good sights, and touching pure objects.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune, it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things, it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

Water, air and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell, whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air, you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Music in performance is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Air expands more than water, space is more expansive than air. Compared with the expanse of the liberated soul, even space has to be considered 'gross'!

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps and reach the air above, there's the rub.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate to be totally present for all my work.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

If a smoker blows air on a white handkerchief he will find yellow spots on it. This is a sign of disease. Smoking leads to cancer. Drinking is a demonic quality. It makes you intoxicated and to forget yourself. Consuming non-vegetarian food is also a bad quality.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power, and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.