J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
Kate Williams
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
Ira Glass
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The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
Naftali Bennett
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
Gary Bauer
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
Wendell Berry
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Yann Martel
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
Fran Lebowitz
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The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.
Yitzhak Shamir
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Mark Twain
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I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.
Ben Harper
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As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
Neil Diamond
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.
Hassan Nasrallah
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Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.
Joanne Rowling
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.
J. R. R. Tolkien