Quotes about land
land musical rehearsal
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in. Hildegard Knef
land two outcomes
Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly. Hillary Clinton
land prosperity economic
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. Herbert Croly
land america today
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. Herbert Hoover
land towns hollywood
It's a mining town in lotus land. F. Scott Fitzgerald
land intellectual needs
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent. Esther Dyson
land america jekyll
America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises Gil Scott-Heron
land mind pieces
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
land wish doe
[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.
land sky joy
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. Halldor Laxness
land blair mines
I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair. Howell Raines
land oxen yoke
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. Horace
land populist presses
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land. Gore Vidal
land people wilderness
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
land eugenics people
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.
land want firsts
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second. George Horace Lorimer
land
He that hath lands hath quarrells. George Herbert
land way
Good land, evill way.
land sea settling
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
land branches saws
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs. Christopher Columbus
land east gone
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
land roles chance
I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. Christine Lahti
land gone-away remember
Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land. Christina Rossetti
land tree fruit
As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.
land superstar particular
Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession. Chris Jericho
land justice people
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. George W. Bush
land survival liberty
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
land hatred ironic
It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater. George Carlin
land development west
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. Frederick Jackson Turner
land looks calling
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Frederick Douglass
land office important
No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen. Felix Frankfurter
land years long
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. Feist
land bits walking
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits. Fay Godwin