The Land Quotes

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

Quality is the best business plan.

With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?