Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm X

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

Malcolm X

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality....

Mahatma Gandhi

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

John Adams

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

John Adams

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

James Richardson

There is no road to the land without roads.

James F. Byrnes

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Laurence J. Peter

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Forests are the lungs of our land......

George Gilder

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

Jon Ronson

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Johnny Carson

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Boyle O'Reilly

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

Their land would become more valuable with time.

Their land is their retirement plan. We don't want to pigeon-hole someone.

you will have the largest undeveloped piece of land in your laps.

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

This is only the first step. Before we can land on the moon, we have to go around it,

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Eric Holder

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

Ellen Glasgow

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

We're lining up the land planning on that site right now.

There's this myth of the land being all wetlands. Everyone thinks it's going to be knee-deep in water.

I want to see what the landscape is really like now.

It's real people versus a totally made up land.

It's a very costly utility. But on the other hand, from an operational perspective, it seems to be smart to stay with land lines.

It's pretty much shock treatment when they land. Most people won't have trained specifically for this.

It's precisely the opposite of the purpose of the land.

The next time we talk to (Jeremy) will be when he lands in Atlanta, back on U.S. soil. Man, we can't wait for that moment.

That land is worth more than it was two or three years ago.