Land Quotes · Page 143

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent…

— Herman Melville

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from…

— Adrian Cronauer

“The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then…

— Patricia A. McKillip

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,…

— Johnny Cash

I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I…

— Chris Kyle

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about…

— Peter Segal

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you…

— Stephen King

Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa…

— Richard Rodriguez

Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest…

— Stephenie Meyer

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The…

— Henry Louis Gates

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe…

— Aldo Leopold

“Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.”

— Robert H. Barlow

We are the land of the free because of the brave.

— Al N. Green

I've always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little…

— Ndamukong Suh

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

You get the choice as individuals across this land to be able to purchase the kind of coverage that's right for you…

— Tom Price

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but…

— Ramakrishna

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a…

— Ed Begley, Jr

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the…

— John Foster Dulles

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among…

— Bill Crawford

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

— Sean Connery

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

— I. L. Peretz

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

— Nora Roberts

Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve…

— Eric Ripert

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do…

— Chief Seattle

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own…

— Stephen King

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father…

— Geraldo Rivera

How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely…

— John Webster

Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice.…

— Desmond Tutu

Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our…

— Hartley Coleridge

I did a tandem parachute jump when I opened a golf course in Atlanta, Georgia. I jumped out of a plane at…

— Eddie the Eagle

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and…

— Anonymous

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

— Anonymous

Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of…

— David Ben-Gurion

Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting…

— M. S. Swaminathan

It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.

— Lena Waithe

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the…

— Paul Robeson