Land Quotes
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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.
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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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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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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by 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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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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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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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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There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.
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Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this road to righteousness Sometimes the climb can be so steep I may falter in my steps But never beyond your reach
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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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Man begets, but land does not beget.
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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
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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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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
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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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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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From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
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In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
