Lands Quotes
435 Lands quotes by 365 unique authors
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Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star…
— John Robbins
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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided…
— Don Pendleton
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When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless…
— Scott Berkun
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I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations…
— Floyd Red Crow Westerman
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No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass…
— Rod McKuen
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Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the…
— Karen Lord
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the…
— George McGovern
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May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision…
— Russell Kirk
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Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed...
— Richard M. Nixon
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Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?
— George Galloway
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I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines…
— Colin Firth
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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never…
— Dogen
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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
— Herman Melville
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A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all…
— Neil Abercrombie
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So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re…
— Joseph Cook
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The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left,…
— David F. Houston
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The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,…
— Christina Stead
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I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
— Ramona Koval
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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your…
— Al Stewart
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Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.
— Mooji
Who Wrote These Lands Quotes
365 authors contributed a total of 435 Lands Quotes, led by these top contributors: