Land Quotes

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

What would this country be without this great land of ours.

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of... Hawaii... to the beautiful sandy beaches of... Hawaii... America is our home.

No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.

Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.

The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.