Land Quotes · Page 24

In the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king!

— Chris Farley

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

— John Boyle O'Reilly

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You've got to aim high and see where you land.

— Nigel Harman

You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.

— Katy Perry

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

— Ariel Gore

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

— Carl Sandburg

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back…

— Steven Wright

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone…

— Eugene V. Debs

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

— Francois Quesnay

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate.

— Bettany Hughes

Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land,…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

— Andrew Napolitano

The world may be as evangelized as it will ever get if we attempt to complete the remaining task with a motivation…

— Steven C. Hawthorne

The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a…

— Natalie Maines

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to…

— Georges Cuvier

One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home…

— Anthea Turner

My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew…

— Debi Mazar

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But…

— Jared Diamond

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode,…

— Donald Cargill

Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed…

— Reid Scott

So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And…

— Annie Dillard

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to…

— John Steinbeck

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,…

— Michelangelo

“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea…

— Christopher Hitchens

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our…

— Edward Albee

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

— Chief Seattle

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure…

— George Eliot

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing…

— Anonymous

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,

— Nina Fedoroff

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

— Nuseir Yassin

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

— Adriano Celentano

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

— Joseph Conrad

I hit very hard and every time I land a punch I hurt my opponent.

— Marcos Maidana

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

— Mencius

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

— John Milton

I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon