Land Quotes
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
Ernest Hemingway
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In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.
Alvin Francis Poussaint
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
Josiah Strong
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Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.
Conn Iggulden
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Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?
Kushal Pal Singh
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The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.
Kabir Bedi
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In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high.
Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
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Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.
Abraham Coles
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Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
William H. Wharton
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Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.
P. C. Cast
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If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill Gates
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Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.
Anton Oliver
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
Victor Hugo
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Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.
Aristotle
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Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?
William Blake
