Quotes about land
land water long
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing. Randy Alcorn
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.
land sea rising
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
land asks negotiating
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
land traveller foreign-lands
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson
land people southern
In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return. Robert Fisk
land rivers orange
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees. Walt Disney
land
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Washington Irving
land alive world
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.' William Stafford
land goodness american-history
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. William Least Heat-Moon
land done sun
I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun William Butler Yeats
land flags patriot
I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land. Winona LaDuke
land zinc giving
What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?
land world firsts
To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.
land essence people
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.
land compensation
The only compensation for land is land,
land america speech
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form. Winston Churchill
land
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers. William Robertson Smith
land errors humanity
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. William Jennings Bryan
landscape might tongue
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Virginia Woolf
land redwoods trespassing
This land is your land, this land is my land Woody Guthrie
land valleys ribbons
As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.
land made
This land is made for you and me.
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