Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Bill Vaughan

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

Bill Vaughan

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

It is a triumph for collaborative science, ... This is a landmark achievement.

Land is worth so much now. We're just trying to put some money on the table to give the elk a chance.

Land is now water on their (BVM) property,

I think they realized the land was worth more than the rent they received.

Greg Collins

Preserving the agricultural land out in that part of Visalia has been important to me since 1975, and I haven't wavered from that position for 30 years.

Biz Stone

When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

Bill Gates

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

Chauncey Depew

It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.

Che Guevara

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

Charlton Heston

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Carl Jung

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

Callan McAuliffe

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

We've got an opportunity to save that land.

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.

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

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.

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.

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,

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.