Quotes about land
land water together
...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. Tim O'Brien
land names white
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life. Thomas Szasz
land genius architecture
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Thomas Jefferson
land pieces property
I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property. Steven Wright
land ideas
In the land of ideas, you are always renting. Steven Soderbergh
land fire enemy
After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. Tom Hooper
land fruit bears
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live Toni Morrison
land decision use
You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions. Tim Kaine
land native-language ideas
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other. S. I. Hayakawa
land charity philanthropy
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. Thomas Gray
land ego needs
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth. Thomas Ligotti
land america matter
Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. Thomas King
land feet may
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
land numbers long
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. Vilfredo Pareto
land water darkness
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. Victor Hugo
land hawks sojourners
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. Stephen King
land sweat waiting
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories. Tea Obreht
land doe
Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to? Tamora Pierce
land broken nurse
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping. Sylvia Plath
land america dust
I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. Swami Vivekananda
land heaven wish
And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish Rupert Brooke
land want language
Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there Rumi
land people waiting
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin. Tom Robbins
land joy soul
Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.
land oregon growth
The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life. Tom McCall
land names sea
If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees? Stephen Crane
land perception age
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939. Spider Robinson
land beast burden
I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. Shaun White
land legs break
You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
land pressure bigger
When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.
land lobbying use
Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground. Sun Tzu
land enemy weapons
Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.
land seriousness
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness. Rainer Maria Rilke