Quotes about land
land people may
As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal. Sandra Cisneros
land rivers sea
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. Saddam Hussein
land roots america
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here. Ronald Reagan
land laughing cruelty
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Robert Jordan
land wings caterpillars
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound. Robert Kagan
land rights government
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using. Robert Solow
land rivers water
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. Willa Cather
land littles waste
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
land
The land belongs to the future.
land people pioneers
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
land bourgeoisie slave
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. Vladimir Lenin
land bread soviet
Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
land dwelling problem
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
landscape planets
I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. Werner Herzog
land water dry
Water is the true wealth in a dry land. Wallace Stegner
land self sea
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves. Wallace Stevens
land skins liberty
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me. Salvador Dali
land desert limited-resources
Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts. Wangari Maathai
land movement improvement
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements W. S. Gilbert
land desert glaciers
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead. W. H. Auden
land people actors
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors. Wayne Knight
land gains firsts
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. William Graham Sumner
land race earth
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
land looks generations
Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land. Wilford Brimley
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 matter
Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. Thomas King
land feet may
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
land numbers long
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. Vilfredo Pareto
land native-language ideas
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other. S. I. Hayakawa
land pieces care
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away? Ron Paul
land watches skis
Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land. Roland Joffe
land earth surface
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land. Susan George