Quotes about land
land step
If I'm not successful, you'll never step on that land.
land people knows
The people know what the land knows. Carl Sandburg
land actors asking
All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all. Burt Reynolds
land strange stranger
I´m a stranger in a strange land. Carson McCullers
land sea doe
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. Alan Coren
land people desire
The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it... Charles R. Swindoll
land knaves fool
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Charles Churchill
land size culture
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.
land feet water
The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged. Charles Darwin
land long needs
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources Barbara Boxer
land self giving
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time. Anwar Sadat
land mystery creation
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.
land guilt levity
A land of levity is a land of guilt. Edward Young
land people literature
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? Elif Safak
land arabia sacred
Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed. Edward Said
land foreign-lands
A woman is a foreign land. Coventry Patmore
land matter events
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. Albert Bushnell Hart
land peaceful way
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. Annie Dillard
land gambling risk
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 Inouye
land form jew
Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in. Daniel J. Boorstin
land america perfection
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.
land sorrow gold
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. D. H. Lawrence
land four want
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. Danny Elfman
land people liberty
Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. Daniel D. Palmer
landscape life-is enriching
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching. Daniel Day-Lewis
land people doom
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them. David Attenborough
land ideas rivers
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 Lauren
landscape lifetime position
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. Dylan Moran
land wilderness passing
Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land. Cotton Mather
land sky car
Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction. E. B. White
land air campaigns
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air. Andre Dubus
land steel should
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land Aneurin Bevan
land saint glory
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. Andrew Young