Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Lin

You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist.

Roger Williams

You can have it (the land) as long as you keep it wild,

We have to have the land and the buildings. Right now there is nothing out there, but we are moving forward.

Steve Squyres

We're using the same landing technique that Pathfinder used.

Alex Winter

We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules.

Baz Luhrmann

We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most extraordinary actors in the world and put them ... in that landscape.

Robert Wyatt

We have an option on an 80-acre piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres. We would keep a lot of trees in the front.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

We are in the land of the unknown.

E. F. Schumacher

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

E. F. Schumacher

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

Anne Lamott

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Annie Dillard

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

Daniel Inouye

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

D. H. Lawrence

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Danny Elfman

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Daniel D. Palmer

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

E. O. Wilson

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,

E. O. Wilson

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

E. O. Wilson

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

E. O. Wilson

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

E. O. Wilson

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

E. O. Wilson

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

E. M. Forster

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Douglas MacArthur

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

Dorothy Stang

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

Donald Cargill

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

Dylan Lauren

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.