Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is only the first step. Before we can land on the moon, we have to go around it,

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

This is a landmark day for Washington Mutual and for our industry,

Eric Holder

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

Peter Drucker

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

Max Nordau

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

Max Lucado

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

Max Eastman

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

John Ruskin

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Prescott

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

John Milton

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

Nina Fedoroff

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,

John Garamendi

Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

Joel Edgerton

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

Frank B. Kellogg

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

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 Fogerty

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

John F. Kennedy

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

John F. Kennedy

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

John F. Kennedy

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

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.

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.

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.