The Land Quotes

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.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

God bless America, land that I love.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

The only compensation for land is land.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

After you leap, before you land, is God.