Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. E. Housman

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Adam McKay

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

Abraham Lincoln

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

We're lining up the land planning on that site right now.

We are kind of in la-la land here. What are we doing here?

Coventry Patmore

A woman is a foreign land.

Cindy Morgan

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

We're trying to get that land into private ownership.

This sets us back. It's still early, but if we're not on the land by about May 10, we lose tremendous yields.

Richard Moe

This swath of land has soaked up more of the blood, sweat and tears than any other region in the country.

We said all along: this is a land development.

We're trying to find uses for this land that's not useful for anything else.

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

Rudyard Kipling

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, / He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; / An' what he thought 'e might require, / 'E went an' took - the same as me!

We would not be able to land (in Stockholm) until 1:30 a.m. and that is not reasonable.

Vandana Shiva

In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.

David F. Houston

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

David F. Houston

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

David Ben-Gurion

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

David Ben-Gurion

Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

David Berg

Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.

Daniel Alarcon

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

Dogen

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

John Milton

Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait

Truck traffic was a big problem for people in my ward when the landfill was open,

Ludwig von Mises

In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to get rid of a condition which is conceived to be deficient-to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness.

Most of it was to the man upstairs. Had it been on land, no one would have survived.

We just want to talk to landlords and let them know what students are thinking. We want to let them know they don't have to evict at the first violation.

You can do this on a land treadmill but water resistance is important. If you have to walk in a pool you have to lean forward.