Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

George Horace Lorimer

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

George Herbert

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

George Herbert

Good land, evill way.

George Herbert

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

Christopher Columbus

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

Christopher Columbus

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Christine Lahti

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Christina Rossetti

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Rossetti

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

Chris Jericho

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

George W. Bush

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

George Carlin

It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.

Frederick Jackson Turner

Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

Frederick Douglass

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

Felix Frankfurter

No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

Feist

I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.

Fay Godwin

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Ezra Taft Benson

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Evel Knievel

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it

Euripides

An ally need not own the land he helps.

Francis Parker Yockey

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing

I wanted to be safe and just wanted to land the jump.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Cassandra Clare

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

A number of his paintings are made with charcoal. Kiefer shows not just destructive forces, but rejuvenation. The landscape is ravaged, but it will one day become very fertile.

Right now we have been managing them because they come to the landfill anyway. They are sent out for shredding, and that material is recycled.

Racial discrimination reared its ugly head. Landlords refused to show their properties to minorities.

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

The money from the land sale pays my mortgage. I know other people who are doing the same thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?

It rolled off the left side of the road and landed on its top.