Lands Quotes
435 Lands quotes by 365 unique authors
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I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.…
— Barry Lyga
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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the…
— Albert Camus
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Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others;…
— Dean Koontz
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which…
— Oscar Wilde
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The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the…
— Brian Aldiss
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I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a…
— Emily Giffin
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Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon…
— Susanna Clarke
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I go to the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up, I stomp back…
— Suzanne Collins
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard…
— John Keats
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A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of…
— Kristin Chenoweth
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Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on…
— Marianne Williamson
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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me…
— Walt Whitman
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature…
— William Shakespeare
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I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she…
— Elizabeth Wein
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children.…
— George R. R. Martin
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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times…
— Amy Carmichael
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Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
— Vera Nazarian
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Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread…
— Jared Diamond
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There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank…
— Immanuel Kant
Who Wrote These Lands Quotes
365 authors contributed a total of 435 Lands Quotes, led by these top contributors: