Land Quotes

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. View quote
Francis Bacon
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. View quote
Helen Keller
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. View quote
Clarence Darrow
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. View quote
Les Brown
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. View quote
William Graham Sumner
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. (Henry James)
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
America is not a young land it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. View quote
William S. Burroughs
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. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. View quote
A. E. Housman
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country. View quote
Bobby Fischer
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. View quote
Desmond Tutu
But they will give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it. View quote
Hesiod
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. View quote
Will Rogers
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. (Andy Warhol)
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. View quote
Adam Smith
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto