Homestead Quotes

29 quotes by 29 authors

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down… — James Thomas Fields
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of… — Art Buchwald
What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and… — Moshe Dayan
There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage… — Barack Obama
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be… — Abraham Lincoln
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor… — Andrew Johnson
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,… — Rutherford B. Hayes
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers,… — Harry S. Truman
One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the… — John F. Kennedy
I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan
There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are… — Bernard Cornwell
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the… — Alexander Carmichael
It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to… — Kyle Busch
There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean. — Wally Hickel
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. — Peter Agre
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an… — Andromeda Romano-Lax
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it… — Fawn M. Brodie
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood… — Marc Edwards
I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead. The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into… — Brad Keselowski
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from… — George Eliot

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