Land Quotes
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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.
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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
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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
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The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
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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.
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I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
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Man begets, but land does not beget.
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
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This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that.
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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.
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Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.
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Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.
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If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.
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I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.
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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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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.
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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.
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There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.
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Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
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In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
