Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.

Elon Musk

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Boris Yeltsin

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

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Joni Mitchell

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Joni Mitchell

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

Kevin Rudd

I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians.

Jimmy Carter

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

John C. Wright

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

John C. McGinley

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

John C. Reilly

For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Mahatma Gandhi

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

James Stephens

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

James Monroe

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Ellen Glasgow

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Henri Nouwen

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Heinrich Himmler

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

Hesiod

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Henry Ford

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

Henry James

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

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.