Land Quotes
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
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Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
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Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term.
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We have a great need for that and great land, ... If we ask the right people to help, I think well get some help.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
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The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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The only compensation for land is land.
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He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
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This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
