Land Quotes

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

The Holy Land is everywhere.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.

The land belongs to the future.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

Land really is the best art.

Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.