Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John D. Rockefeller

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

Louis Bacon

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

Louis Bacon

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

Loretta Lynn

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Maika Monroe

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

Gabrielle Zevin

I met a travler from an ancient land.

Gail Carriger

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

Freya Stark

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

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.

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.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Boyle O'Reilly

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

Matthew McConaughey

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

John F. Kennedy

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

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.

Tyler Farr

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Rick Riordan

No which fish are big enough to land

Rick Riordan

You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was.

Rick Riordan

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

Owen Hart

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

Ovid

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]

Peter Garrett

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

Paul Tsongas

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.