“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
Said in many interviews, usually when asked where the Georgian-born, Belfast-raised, British singer feels she belongs. <br class="br"> German Video interview http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/16/0,4070,3906608-5,00.html <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: "I'm from Earth."
“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
Eden ahbez (1908–1995) American songwriter and recording artist
Tape recording to Joe Romersa
Shadowbox Studio
Isaac Asimov book Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
All page numbers from the 1964 Bantam Pathfinder mass market paperback edition, 6th printing
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
“We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.
“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.”
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
Twitter https://twitter.com/pontifex/status/611518771186929664?lang=pt (18 June 2015) <br class="br">2010s, 2015
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Homeward Bound
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 53
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 385.