The Land Quotes

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

Good land, evill way.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.

health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

New earths, new themes expect us.

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.