Quotes about land
land awards achievement
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. Robert Plant
land breathing space
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. Richard M. Nixon
land should mining
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed...
land air water
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?
land singing attention
And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. Reba McEntire
land lessons reason
Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson. Tori Amos
land wings ears
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
land people matter
All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter. Veronica Roth
land support arrogance
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver. Robert Green Ingersoll
land people may
As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal. Sandra Cisneros
land rivers sea
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. Saddam Hussein
land roots america
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here. Ronald Reagan
land laughing cruelty
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Robert Jordan
land wings caterpillars
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound. Robert Kagan
land rights government
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using. Robert Solow
land rivers water
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. Willa Cather
land littles waste
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
land
The land belongs to the future.
land people pioneers
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
land bourgeoisie slave
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. Vladimir Lenin
land bread soviet
Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
land dwelling problem
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
landscape planets
I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. Werner Herzog
land water dry
Water is the true wealth in a dry land. Wallace Stegner
land self sea
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves. Wallace Stevens
land skins liberty
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me. Salvador Dali
land desert limited-resources
Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts. Wangari Maathai
land movement improvement
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements W. S. Gilbert
land desert glaciers
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead. W. H. Auden
land people actors
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors. Wayne Knight
land gains firsts
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. William Graham Sumner
land race earth
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
land looks generations
Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land. Wilford Brimley