Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pol Pot

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

Pliny the Elder

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

Philip Yancey

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Pope Benedict XVI

As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation

Ellie Goulding

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

Ellen Hopkins

Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

Jimmy Fallon

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

Joel Salatin

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

John D. Rockefeller

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Linda Hogan

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

Larry King

You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

Lewis Carroll

There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.

Lewis Carroll

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

Josephine Baker

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

Mohammad Khatami

The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,

Mohammed Morsi

The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.

Pawan Kalyan

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

Peter Sarsgaard

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

Piers Anthony

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

Madame de Stael

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Haruki Murakami

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

John Maynard Keynes

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

John Lescroart

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

John Leguizamo

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

John Banville

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

Justin Vernon

People gather details and comparisons but it doesn't really bother me or land on me of any sort. I don't know if I was... Maybe I was influenced by them, maybe I wasn't, but I don't know. I was probably influenced by everything I've heard. So it doesn't bother me at all, but it doesn't sway me either.

Justin Timberlake

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Joyce Meyer

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

Kate Green

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

Joseph Conrad

claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

Josh Turner

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

Juan Goytisolo

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Paul Kantner

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.