Lands Quotes

435 Lands quotes by 365 unique authors

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left… — C.S. Lewis
They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and… — M.M. Kaye
He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then… — Jandy Nelson
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said… — Enid Blyton
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes… — T.E. Lawrence
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to… — Hans Christian Andersen
And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. — Christopher Paolini
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a… — Theodore Dreiser
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's… — Umberto Eco
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the… — Richard Francis Burton
I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of… — Stephenie Meyer
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Elif Safak
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands? — Aberjhani
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all… — Mahatma Gandhi
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for… — Douglas Adams
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in… — Vladimir Nabokov
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And… — Stephen Crane
I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for… — Richard Wurmbrand
The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... — William Joyce
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and… — George Orwell
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the… — Neil Gaiman

Who Wrote These Lands Quotes

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