Sun Ra (1914–1993) American jazz composer and bandleader
As quoted in a press release by A&M Records (1989) http://www.elrarecords.com/sunra.html
“I was here on earth because I chose to be.”
Source: The Stories of John Cheever
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American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982Related quotes
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W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Often cited as by Auden without attribution, this quotation has been traced to John Foster Hall (1867-1945), an English comedian known as the Reverend Vivian Foster, Vicar of Mirth. Full history with sound recording http://audensociety.org/vivianfoster.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“I think that I am here, on this earth,
To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Consciousness," trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Unattainable Earth (1986)
Context: I think that I am here, on this earth,
To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know.
As if I were sent so that whatever takes place
Has meaning because it changes into memory.
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Source: Essays In Criticism By Matthew Arnold
“I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.”
Alan Shepard (1923–1998) American astronaut
The Orlando Sentinel staff (August 13, 1992) "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney", The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2.
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) German Army officer and later Nazi leader in Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
Deutsche Gottglaube, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 9
“Here in a little lonely room
I am master of earth and sea,
And the planets come to me.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) British poet
The Loom of Dreams, st. 1 (1900).
Brooks D. Simpson (1957) American historian
2010s, Erasing History? Monuments and Memory (January 2016)
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
60 Minutes interview (2005)
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted in Calculusː Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Unsourced variant: I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.