Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Walden

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

I don't know how we can get through the zoning, subdivision and land development process and get all the permits we need by Oct. 1. If we don't have all the permits and approvals, there won't be a settlement.

Ivo Andric

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Irwin Corey

Without this great land of ours, we would all drown.

Land is worth so much now. We're just trying to put some money on the table to give the elk a chance.

Land is now water on their (BVM) property,

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Bill Vaughan

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

Bill Vaughan

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

Most of it was to the man upstairs. Had it been on land, no one would have survived.

We just want to talk to landlords and let them know what students are thinking. We want to let them know they don't have to evict at the first violation.

Alex Winter

We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules.

Paul Wright

It doesn't fit. It sticks out. But it's his land.

I think if they had been on land, it still would have been disastrous, but not nearly as much,

I think they realized the land was worth more than the rent they received.

You can do this on a land treadmill but water resistance is important. If you have to walk in a pool you have to lean forward.

Roger Williams

You can have it (the land) as long as you keep it wild,

Buzz Aldrin

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

James Dobson

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Jared Harris

I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

Christine Todd Whitman

Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

Gladys Taber

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

Herman Melville

But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

Herman Melville

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

Herb Caen

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Henry David Thoreau

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

Henry David Thoreau

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

Henry David Thoreau

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.