Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Collins

Preserving the agricultural land out in that part of Visalia has been important to me since 1975, and I haven't wavered from that position for 30 years.

John Roberts

Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, ... It's a little more than settled.

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Please protect this land. It is for you and yours to protect.

Pierre said, 'If he can get clearance, give us a shout and we'll see what the lay of the land is at that point.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

It is a triumph for collaborative science, ... This is a landmark achievement.

Land is worth so much now. We're just trying to put some money on the table to give the elk a chance.

Land is now water on their (BVM) property,

Bill Vaughan

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

Bill Vaughan

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

Paul Wright

It doesn't fit. It sticks out. But it's his land.

I think if they had been on land, it still would have been disastrous, but not nearly as much,

I think they realized the land was worth more than the rent they received.

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

Delta Burke

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.

If I'm not successful, you'll never step on that land.

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Brad Little

He's got something he wants, if he has in mind a land trade,

If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,

John Bradley

I don't trust them. I don't want to see this land going into state hands. They will ruin it.

I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Charles R. Swindoll

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...

Charles Churchill

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Charles Churchill

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

Charles Darwin

The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.