Land Quotes
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Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
William Blake
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People are calling us to say they've lost the land they've deer hunted on for decades. They want to know what we're going to do about it. We tell them there's nothing we can do. It's private land.
Brad Moore
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A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
H. L. Mencken
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
Willa Cather
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I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
Eva Herzigova
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What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
Conn Iggulden
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And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.
Edwin Muir
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The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
Tom Allen
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Humphrey Gilbert
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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
Lord Byron
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There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.
Carolina Nairne
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Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.
Johnny Depp
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
Samuel Schmid
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This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.
Ed Martin
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The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
Abba Hillel Silver
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The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
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Everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.
G.A. Henty
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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.
Michael Finkel
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What happened at Oklahoma, that's fairy-tale land. They had great talent there already.
Ed Cunningham
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Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this road to righteousness Sometimes the climb can be so steep I may falter in my steps But never beyond your reach
Rich Mullins
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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Claude Brown
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Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Walter Knott
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My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.
Erin Brockovich