Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Cloud

People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Kurt Cobain

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

Narendra Modi

Less land, less time, more crop.

Narendra Modi

Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer.

Merle Shain

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

Marvin Olasky

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

Malcolm X

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

Malcolm X

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

Malcolm X

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality....

Mahatma Gandhi

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

John Adams

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

John Adams

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

Harvey Mackay

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

Louise Erdrich

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

James Madison

How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.

James Madison

To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

James Lovelock

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

James Larkin

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

Joan Didion

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

Jimi Hendrix

Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

Emma Goldman

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Emiliano Zapata

The land belongs to the people who work it,

Emiliano Zapata

The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.

John McCain

The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.

John Jakes

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

Henrik Zetterberg

The first one was kind of lucky. I took a swing on it, and it landed in the net.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

Shane Carruth

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Michael W. Smith

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.

Michael Pollan

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.