The Land Quotes

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

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.

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.

I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.

One of those lies is that all we need to do is elect more Democrats. No. That actually isn't going to get us to the Promised Land.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

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

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

We ain't never gonna lose this land.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

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.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.