Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Udall

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

Mohammad Khatami

The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,

Mohammed Morsi

The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.

Pawan Kalyan

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

Peter Sarsgaard

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

Piers Anthony

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

Sharad Pawar

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Sean O'Casey

A waste land lit by holy candles.

Li Ka-shing

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

Lawrence Durrell

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

Kushal Pal Singh

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

Kushal Pal Singh

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

Stephen King

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Tea Obreht

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.

Marcus Garvey

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Marcus Aurelius

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Marc Ostrofsky

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

Robert Adams

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

Tim O'Reilly

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

Tim O'Brien

...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

Thomas Szasz

Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.

Thomas Jefferson

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

Steven Wright

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.

Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

Tom Hooper

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Toni Morrison

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Tim Kaine

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

Tamora Pierce

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?

Sylvia Plath

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.

Swami Vivekananda

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.

Rupert Brooke

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

Rumi

Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

Tom Robbins

Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.