Quotes about land
land long battle
Neal A. Maxwell Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
land people laughing
Muhammad Ali People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
land justice long
Martin Luther King, Jr. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.
land heritage want
Martin Luther King, Jr. What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.
land worry
Mark Wahlberg OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.
land waiting way
Mark Batterson Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.
land building
Nicholas Haslam The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.
land airports states
Neil Abercrombie A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
land stuff discrimination
Neil Abercrombie So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
land ideas common
Neil Abercrombie Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
land purpose assets
Neil Abercrombie When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
land nervous film
Naomi Watts You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.
land people world
Princess Diana The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.
land sea clear
Publilius Syrus When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.
land scripts lap
Leonardo DiCaprio It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
land class hysteria
Paul Robeson In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
land greed want
Laurence J. Peter As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.
land life-is unusual
L. Frank Baum Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13
land rose wealth
Oliver Goldsmith But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
land limits splendid
Oliver Goldsmith How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
land spirit wealth
Margaret Atwood As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.
land clouds cuckoos
Margaret Thatcher It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
land names california
Mark Twain I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"
land worst-case-scenario feet
Eli Broad I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.
land purple fire
Bayard Taylor When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
land air water
Paul Tsongas This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
land america campaigns
Mary Chapin Carpenter Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
land people essentials
Pope Benedict XVI In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.
land earth honestly
Philipp Meyer No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.
land people growth
Pete Wilson The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
land water community
Rachel Carson Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.
land wish pieces
Pol Pot If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.