Quotes about land
land class population
We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this? Thomas Jefferson
land europe labor
In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant. Thomas Jefferson
land sea rising
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry. Thomas Jefferson
land community citizens
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen. Thomas Jefferson
land civilization people
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. Thomas Jefferson
land rumor stories
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them bear any resemblance to the truth, including the rumor that I am planning on resigning. Rick Renzi
land people west
All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land. Rick Santorum
land broken nurse
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping. Sylvia Plath
land america dust
I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. Swami Vivekananda
land sweat waiting
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories. Tea Obreht
land charity philanthropy
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. Thomas Gray
land ego needs
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth. Thomas Ligotti
land america armenia
There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth. William Saroyan
land promise balance
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values. William J. Clinton
landscape week i-realized
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find. William Friedkin
land tunnels relax
The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax. Will Cuppy
landscape way taste
Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes. Willard Van Orman Quine
land cities soul
You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind. Saint Basil
land support want
I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. Saint Augustine
land lessons reason
Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson. Tori Amos
land wings ears
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker. Tori Amos
land done firsts
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done. Robert Mugabe
land cabinets ministers
True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. Robert Mugabe
land reform currents
We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas. Robert Mugabe
land asks negotiating
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. Robert Mugabe
land numbers sowing
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. Robert Grosseteste
land political tyranny
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. Robert Griffin III
land breathing space
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. Richard M. Nixon
land should mining
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed... Richard M. Nixon
land air water
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water? Richard M. Nixon
land singing attention
And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. Reba McEntire
land laundry visceral
But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living. Sandra Lerner
land america profit
America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.