300 Quotes on Land

• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

  Author: Don Young

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

  Author: Francis Yockey

• Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

  Author: Frank Wright

• I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

  Author: Terri Windling

• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

  Author: Heather Wilson

• Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.

  Author: Kit Williams

• There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

  Author: William Wharton

• I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?

  Author: James Welch

• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  Author: John Wayne

• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  Author: Charles Warner

• Land really is the best art.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him.

  Author: William Waller

• The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

  Author: Alice Walker

• People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

  Author: Tom Vilsack

• Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

  Author: Jules Verne

• We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  Author: George Vancouver

• All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

  Author: Mark Twain

• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.

  Author: Janine Turner

• The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

  Author: Frederick Turner

• I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

  Author: Harriet Tubman

• This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  Author: G. Trevelyan

• The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

  Author: Dylan Thomas

• We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

  Author: Max Sydow

• Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

  Author: William Sumner

• It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

  Author: William Sumner

• It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

  Author: William Sumner

• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  Author: William Sumner

• The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

  Author: Charles Sturt

• I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

  Author: Mark Strong

• Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

  Author: David Steinberg

• As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.

  Author: Catherine Spence

• The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

  Author: John Sousa

• Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

  Author: William Smith

• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

  Author: Adam Smith

• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.

  Author: Mike Simpson

• What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

  Author: Mike Simpson

• I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

  Author: M. Sherwood

• Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• All of the land of Israel is ours.

  Author: Yitzhak Shamir

• I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

  Author: Samuel Schmid

• Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Author: Siegfried Sassoon

• It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

  Author: Peter Sarsgaard

• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Author: Jose Saramago

• It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

  Author: Anwar Sadat

• One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

  Author: John Ruskin

• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  Author: David Roth

• In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

  Author: Will Rogers

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

  Author: John Robinson

• 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.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

  Author: Mark Roberts

• I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

  Author: David Ricardo

• Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

  Author: David Ricardo

• I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.

  Author: Frederic Remington

• People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

  Author: Howell Raines

• Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

  Author: Francois Quesnay

• I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

  Author: Richard Price

• Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

  Author: John Prescott

• Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

  Author: Dennis Potter

• Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

  Author: Beatrix Potter

• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

  Author: Michael Pollan

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

  Author: Laurence Peter

• Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

  Author: Eddie Perez

• What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

  Author: Shimon Peres

• Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

  Author: William Pennington

• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

  Author: Pope Paul VI

• Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

  Author: Alexandra Paul

• It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

  Author: Amos Oz

• Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

  Author: Tim O'Reilly

• I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

  Author: Mohammed Omar

• You are the land. The land is you.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

  Author: William Odom

• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  Author: Barack Obama

• It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  Author: Gale Norton

• Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

  Author: Knute Nelson

• I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

  Author: Charles Munch

• We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

  Author: Mark Morris

• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.

  Author: John Moody

• By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

  Author: James Monroe

• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

  Author: Margaret Mitchell

• The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

  Author: George Minot

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  Author: Gary Miller

• No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  Author: Ralph Merkle

• I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

  Author: Mencius

• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  Author: Herman Melville

• People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

  Author: David McKay

• But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

  Author: John McHugh

• I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

  Author: Kent McCord

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  Author: W. Maugham

• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Author: Abraham Maslow

• I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

  Author: Paul Martin

• I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

  Author: Paul Martin

• Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

  Author: George Martin

• What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

  Author: George Martin

• In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

  Author: Felix Marti-Ibanez

• Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

  Author: Joseph Mankiewicz

• Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

  Author: Nelson Mandela

• We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

  Author: James Madison

• I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

  Author: Lucretius

• If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

  Author: James Lovelock

• Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

  Author: Hal Lindsey

• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  Author: David Letterman

• We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

  Author: Aldo Leopold

• Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

  Author: Aldo Leopold

• Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

  Author: Aldo Leopold

• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Author: Aldo Leopold

• I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

  Author: Annie Leibovitz

• Anything to do with the land, I love.

  Author: Chris LeDoux

• To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

  Author: Richard Leakey

• Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

  Author: Robin Leach

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  Author: T. Lawrence

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  Author: David Lawrence

• Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

  Author: Wilfrid Laurier

• The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

  Author: James Larkin

• More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

  Author: Nick Lampson

• Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

  Author: Christine Lahti

• With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

  Author: Satish Kumar

• I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

  Author: Walter Knott

• You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

  Author: Nigel Kneale

• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  Author: Eartha Kitt

• I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

  Author: Ron Kind

• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Author: Ron Kind

• I will burn your city, your land, your self.

  Author: Hulagu Khan

• If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

  Author: Ken Kesey

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  Author: Jack Kerouac

• This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

  Author: Dirk Kempthorne

• Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Author: Helen Keller

• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  Author: John Keats

• We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

  Author: Denis Kearney

• Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

  Author: Moshe Katsav

• The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

  Author: Lawrence Kasdan

• They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

  Author: Hamid Karzai

• You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

  Author: Paul Kantner

• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Author: Donald Justice

• I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

  Author: William Joyce

• Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  Author: James Jones

• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  Author: Wendell Johnson

• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

  Author: Kevin Johnson

• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  Author: Oliver John

• Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

  Author: Roland Joffe

• Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  Author: John Jakes

• Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

  Author: Derek Jacobi

• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  Author: Christopher Isherwood

• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  Author: Washington Irving

• Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

  Author: Daniel Inouye

• We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

  Author: King Hussein I

• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Author: Zora Hurston

• Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

  Author: Duncan Hunter

• We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

  Author: Henry Hudson

• The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

  Author: Libby Houston

• Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

  Author: David Houston

• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  Author: A. Housman

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

  Author: Herbert Hoover

• After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

  Author: Tom Hooper

• The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

  Author: Larry Holmes

• Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

  Author: James Hogg

• Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

  Author: Edward Hoagland

• Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

  Author: Thor Heyerdahl

• But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

  Author: Hesiod

• We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

  Author: Theodor Herzl

• The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

  Author: Theodor Herzl

• It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

  Author: Theodor Herzl

• I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

  Author: Eva Herzigova

• I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

  Author: Audrey Hepburn

• It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

  Author: Matthew Henson

• And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

  Author: Noah Hathaway

• I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.

  Author: Alcee Hastings

• All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

  Author: Owen Hart

• No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

  Author: Benjamin Harrison

• The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

  Author: John Harlan

• If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

  Author: Mike Harding

• There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

  Author: Tom Hanks

• The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

  Author: Robert Hamilton

• If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

  Author: William Halsey

• We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

  Author: James Hall

• This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

  Author: Woody Guthrie

• If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

  Author: Robert Grosseteste

• The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

  Author: Alfred Griswold

• Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

  Author: Juan Goytisolo

• As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

  Author: Al Gore

• In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

  Author: Nikolai Gogol

• We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

  Author: Nikolai Gogol

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  Author: Fay Godwin

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  Author: Fay Godwin

• The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.

  Author: Christopher Gist

• We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

  Author: Humphrey Gilbert

• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

  Author: Susan George

• The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

  Author: Stephen Gardiner

• As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

  Author: Elton Gallegly

• This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

  Author: Du Fu

• The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

  Author: Bill Frist

• America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  Author: E. Forster

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