Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Jeff Goodell

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

Jeff Goodell

Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

Gil Scott-Heron

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

Harriet Martineau

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

Halldor Laxness

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Howell Raines

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

Horace

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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.

As the media landscape changes, PR has to find new ways to pitch products.

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?

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

Tiger Woods

It was an unbelievable second shot through the trees. I mean, come on. He lands it there, just over the bunker, perfect, pin high, ho hum.

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

Don Johnston

That shows that if this were a primary, there would be a lot of opportunity to pick up votes. The idea was to see what the landscape was if this were a primary.

This will be challenging because it's the highest-altitude landing that NASA has ever attempted.

Bernie Sanders

I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for all people, not just the land control by the super rich.

The water was like glass. You couldn't see land at all. It was awesome.

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Water has taken away land that he could sell.

There's not a lot of land left that won't be under construction in three years in that area.

Chuck D.

There's no comparison. At the largest landfill in the state, they process a million tons (of garbage) a year.