Quotes about land
land strange stranger
Carson McCullers I´m a stranger in a strange land.
land sea doe
Alan Coren Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
land people desire
Charles R. Swindoll The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...
land knaves fool
Charles Churchill Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
land size culture
Charles Churchill England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.
land feet water
Charles Darwin The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.
land water long
Jared Diamond The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
land creating people
Jane Siberry As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.
landed
the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.
land people tradition
Ariel Gore Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
land feelings literature
Anthony Trollope It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
land long half
Diana Wynne Jones It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
land league boots
Diana Wynne Jones In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
land strange
Daniel Handler Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.
land careers judging
Craig Ferguson Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.
land market performance poorer relative stock
The poorer performance of the stock market relative to the land market makes it attractive.
land land-of-the-free want
Bob Dylan You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free
land brain liquor
Bob Dylan There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin
land games justice
Bob Dylan Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.
land insanity boundaries
Billy Collins Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
land mind pure
Bodhidharma If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
landscape force visuals
Bridget Riley For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
land want done
Brigham Young The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.
land scottish scots
Billy Boyd Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing
land pick-me-up might
Bill Hicks Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up.
land losing whenever
Whenever you look at it in its entirety, you could be losing all the land to a developer.
landing security until zone
We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.
landscape next needs
Dieter Rams There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
land long needs
Barbara Boxer Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
land self giving
Anwar Sadat Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.
land mystery creation
Anwar Sadat Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.
land guilt levity
Edward Young A land of levity is a land of guilt.