Quotes about land
land doubt trying
Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one. Charles Dickens
land fantasy trilogies
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade. Charles Stross
land promise nests
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments. Charles Spurgeon
land sea shore
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. Alan Bennett
land horizon earth
When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth. Akhenaton
land skins rising
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
land punishment oil
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others. Chinua Achebe
land agriculture earth
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Chief Seattle
land mind body
The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same Chief Joseph
land our-world people
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
land holocaust hopeful
The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps. Edward Hirsch
land water population
What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population. Ed Begley, Jr.
land water beef
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
land water land-and-water
Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words. David Wallace
land class community
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated. David Ricardo
land agriculture together
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
land firsts population
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
land may corn
If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
landscape paint worn
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. David Hockney
landscape thrill enjoyment
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
land long joy
The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated. David Douglas
land oil titles
I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig. Benedict Cumberbatch
land machines just-being
Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me. Beau Mirchoff
land
Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of. August Wilson
land new-day today
Today is a new day for the land. Antonis Samaras
land lies ship
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? William Wordsworth
landing york
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. Lauren Worsham
land earth planets
What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land? Kurt Vonnegut
land cities roots
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer. Bernard Baruch
land machines pay
A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay. Cass Gilbert
land people ifs
If you thought you didn't like some people on land... Carol Leifer
land ideas return
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you? C. S. Lewis
land names people
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself. Abba Eban