Land Quotes
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The war also made its way into love songs, including such kitsch classics as “Your Lips Are No Man’s Land but Mine” and “If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!"
Ben Yagoda -
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.
Edith Pattou
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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Claude Brown -
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
Ansel Adams -
People have asked me, 'Hey, what do you think about driving the 43 car?' I say it's great, and it's going to be even better when we land in Victory Lane one day. That's when it's going to really mean something.
Bobby Labonte -
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 -
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner -
Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.
Craig Coleman
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Alan Bennett -
I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.
Hassan Nasrallah -
You tell yourself: I’ll be gone To some other land, some other sea, To a city far lovelier than this Could ever have been or hoped to be - … You will find no new lands, no other seas.
Attia Hosain -
In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
Alan Boldun -
Land of lost gods and godlike men.
Lord Byron -
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
Abram Joseph Ryan
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
John Maynard Keynes -
The land belongs to the future.
Willa Cather -
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.
Michael Moorcock -
Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?
Abram Joseph Ryan -
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.
Bill Clinton -
The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
Conn Iggulden
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Humphrey Gilbert -
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
Rudolf Arnheim -
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 -
Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
Sargent Shriver