When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits. — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made… — Petula Clark Copy Share Image
No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America,… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
The fact is, when you talk to people, they know that something weird is going on, particularly people who are connected to… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by… — John Smith Copy Share Image
What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From the Book of Mormon come other precious promises, including promises of peace, freedom, and blessings if we 'will but serve the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can… — Harry West Copy Share Image
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history. — Abram Joseph Ryan Copy Share Image
An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
