Lands Quotes

435 Lands quotes by 365 unique authors

Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It… — Julian Baggini
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and… — William Butler Yeats
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat… — Steven Wright
And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the… — Patricia Marx
Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy,… — William Jennings Bryan
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't… — C.S. Lewis
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to… — Flannery O'Connor
That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place… — J.R.R. Tolkien
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers… — E E Cummings
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,… — George Eliot
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to… — Marcel Proust
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and… — Jack Kerouac
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and… — Taylor Caldwell
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much… — Neil Gaiman
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit… — Shel Silverstein

Who Wrote These Lands Quotes

365 authors contributed a total of 435 Lands Quotes, led by these top contributors: