Land Quotes
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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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.
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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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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
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In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
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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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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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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
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Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
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We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
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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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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?
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They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.
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The land belongs to the future.
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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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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
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I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
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America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.
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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.
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I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.
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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.
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There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.
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A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
