Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

Markus Zusak

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

Abdul Kalam

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

A. E. Housman

No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.

One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.

If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,

John Bradley

I don't trust them. I don't want to see this land going into state hands. They will ruin it.

Joseph Estrada

Some are saying I should resign, some want me impeached, some say I should go on vacation, ... This is my advice: They are the ones who should go on vacation. They should come here and be with people who don't have land and witness the poverty here.

Delta Burke

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.

If I'm not successful, you'll never step on that land.

Jim Gibbons

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

Jerome K. Jerome

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Jennifer Lopez

It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz.

James A. Baldwin

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Jackie Mason

Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.

Hildegard Knef

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Hillary Clinton

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

Herbert Croly

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Herbert Hoover

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Esther Dyson

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

Felix Frankfurter

No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

Feist

I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.

Fay Godwin

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Ezra Taft Benson

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Evel Knievel

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it

Euripides

An ally need not own the land he helps.

Francis Parker Yockey

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing

Frances Mayes

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.