Lands Quotes

435 Lands quotes by 365 unique authors

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust
If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war,… — Country Joe McDonald
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there… — Thomas Jefferson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath… — Alfred the Great
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede… — Barack Obama
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by… — Charles Lyell
Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to… — George W. Bush
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each… — Ellsworth Huntington
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and… — James Madison
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these… — Carl Jung
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. — Louise Erdrich
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing… — Pierre Loti
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by… — Frederick Stanley Maude
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; you must have… — Samuel Rutherford
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant… — Geoffrey Chaucer
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some… — Paul Robeson
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the… — Paul Keating
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time.… — Ariel Sharon
Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put… — Gough Whitlam
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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