Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boris Yeltsin

Before passing the Land Code, they should have looked into the Russian constitution,

Greg Walden

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

Tom Scholz

I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

Sam Mendes

I froze for a bit, in truth-for about six months after the Oscars... There were lots of scripts landing on my desk.

Samuel Coleridge

I pass, like night, from land to land; / I have strange power of speech.

I'll take 10 of 18 from two-point land.

In the six months at sea we never saw a tree or land.

I really think it has to do with strength and conditioning. That's probably the most preventative measure you can take. But it's really just the odds. Sometimes you land right and sometimes you don't. It's part of football.

I don't know how we can get through the zoning, subdivision and land development process and get all the permits we need by Oct. 1. If we don't have all the permits and approvals, there won't be a settlement.

It's a big step. Now we own the land, and it's zoned properly.

They were unable to recreate the trajectory and landing point and everything even using two people to throw the mannequin out the window.

It is the law of the land that a woman has the right to choose. That is where I stand and where I will always stand.

It's going to be a fundraiser for victims of land mines,

It's a very costly utility. But on the other hand, from an operational perspective, it seems to be smart to stay with land lines.

Richard Moe

It's the way we've used land. We haven't thought of it as historic.

Gary Roberts

It's the last undeveloped westerly piece in Plymouth Township. Even with the tax breaks, we've been putting land back on the tax rolls.

It just makes sense to sell now. The land is worth so much more as a residential development.

Ted Cruz

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

John Fogerty

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

John F. Kennedy

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

John F. Kennedy

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

John F. Kennedy

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

John F. Kennedy

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

Owen Hart

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

Ovid

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]

Peter Garrett

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

Paul Tsongas

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

Philipp Meyer

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

Pete Wilson

The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.

Rachel Carson

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.