Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Amy Sedaris

Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.

Amitabh Bachchan

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Brad Little

He's got something he wants, if he has in mind a land trade,

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Richard Branson

We told him he had to land alive.

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.

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

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

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.

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

We see land being used primarily for residential development.

We've been looking and looking at land. We have been very diligent.

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.

James Callaghan

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

Stephen Jay Gould

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.