Land Quotes
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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
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The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
Conn Iggulden
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The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."
Ian Bogost
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The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
Freya Stark
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I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Edward Burne-Jones
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I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
Cressida Cowell
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Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.
Lewis Carroll
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw
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Land was bringing six shillings an acre, travelling dentists charged a shilling an extraction – but in Caltowie the local draper pulled them out as a free service to customers.
R. M. Williams
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
Willa Cather
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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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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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
Paul Revere
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No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
Fisher Ames
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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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The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians
Bernard Membe
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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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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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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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What happened at Oklahoma, that's fairy-tale land. They had great talent there already.
Ed Cunningham
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
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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 Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
Herodotus