Land Quotes · Page 175

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of…

— George Eliot

We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know…

— Canasatego

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which…

— Robert Mugabe

Basketball, man: it is a land of giants.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power…

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership…

— Ted Turner

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief…

— Stewart Udall

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management…

— Gale Norton

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off…

— Richard Ayoade

The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws…

— Edward Everett

And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete…

— Jack Kerouac

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide…

— John Geddes

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

— Miranda Lambert

When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think…

— Wes Jackson

One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices…

— William O. Douglas

The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding…

— John H. McWhorter

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and…

— William C. Brown

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is…

— Daniel Alarcon

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land.…

— Bruno Dumont

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by…

— George F. Kennan

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the…

— Albert Einstein

Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is…

— Aldo Leopold

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that…

— John Greenleaf Whittier