Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are in the land of the unknown.

E. F. Schumacher

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

E. F. Schumacher

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

E. B. White

We can't get leases for three months, ... Landlords won't do that.

Pete Carroll

We realized what the landscape was and how this thing was setting up.

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.

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,

We like where we landed on the bracket. Now we just have to go out and make the most of that opportunity.

Jimmy Carter

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

John C. Wright

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

John C. McGinley

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

John C. Reilly

For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Mahatma Gandhi

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

James Stephens

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

James Monroe

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

James Madison

How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.

James Madison

To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

James Lovelock

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

James Larkin

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

John Garamendi

Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

Joel Edgerton

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

Frank B. Kellogg

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

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Joni Mitchell

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Joni Mitchell

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.