Land Quotes

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.

Never build your content ship on rented land.

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.

The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.

Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.