„Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.“

— Archimedes
„The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.“
— Chinua Achebe
„Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.“
— Basava
„If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.“
— Ronald Reagan
„I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me.“
— Sathya Sai Baba
„Love the earth and sun and animals,Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,Stand up for the stupid and crazy,Devote your income and labor to others…And your very flesh shall be a great poem.“
— Walt Whitman
„Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall standHenceforward in thy shadow.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.“
— Sylvia Plath
„We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„The richWill make temples for Sivawhat shall I, a poor man, do?My legs are pillars,the body the shrine,the head the cupola of gold,Listen, O! Lord:Standing things shall fall,that which moves shall stay“
— Basava
„Who owns the earth? Did we want the earth that we should wander on it? Did we need the earth that we were never still upon it? Whoever needs the earth shall have the earth: he shall be still upon it, he shall rest within a little place, he shall dwell in one small room for ever.“
— Thomas Wolfe