The Land Quotes

Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

You are the land. The land is you.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.