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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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The land belongs to the future.
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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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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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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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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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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 land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
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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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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
