What if the Earth had rings?

If Earth had rings like Saturn or Uranus, what would they have looked like to us? Space and science fiction artist Ron Miller made a series of graphics showing us how the rings would look like from different parts of the Earth.
As seen from Guatemala in South America, the rings spread across the sky over an ancient temple. Notice the illumination on the bottom of the moon: reflected light from Earth that illuminates the dark side of the moon is much brighter than in reality because of sunlight being reflected from the rings.
In Quito, Ecuador, an observer would be in the same plane as the rings.  From the equator on a ringed Earth would look like a bright line going from horizon to horizon directly overhead.
In Nome, Alaska, Earth's rings will give little more light than a full moon. The rings would neither rise nor set, and would be visible day and night at the same spot.
In Washington D.C., and indeed the entire eastern coast of the United States of America, the rings would appear like a permanent rainbow in the sky.
The view on the Tropic of Capricorn will be extraordinary. The large oval in the middle of the ring is Earth's shadow. During the course of every night you would be able watch the shadow sweep across the ring.  Here it is shown at midnight in Polynesia, the island group west of Australia, with the shadow at its fullest extent.
In 1980, John O'Keefe of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center suggested that Earth may have had a ring system at the end of the Eocene age about 34 million years ago. At this time, Earth was bombarded by showers of glassy rocks which were captured by the Earth's gravitational field and became organized into a ring system like that of Saturn. This ring system may have lasted for millions of years. The rings cast a shadow across Earth's surface making it very cold. This may have resulted in the dying off of many marine organisms, such as plankton and mollusks during this period.
Today, the strong pull of the Moon as well as the Sun makes it difficult for Earth to sustain a ring system. But what if suddenly rings were to appear in our sky?
Would kids grow up differently under such different skies?
Would they paint differently?
Write different stories?
Dream differently?
I wonder.

--From many sources, including cnet.com