Land Quotes - page 6

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and defies the law of gravity at the same time is really good. (Banksy)
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry. View quote
Francis Parkman
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold. View quote
Francis Parkman
According to Eshin's "Essentials of Salvation," the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land. View quote
Yukio Mishima
From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today. View quote
Ted Kennedy
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. View quote
David Lloyd George
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? View quote
David Lloyd George
Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
But, fortunately for mankind, the neat rents of the land, under a system of private property, can never be diminished by the progress of cultivation. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. View quote
François Quesnay
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. (Louis V. Gerstner)
I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago [...] I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land [...] With a wig, yeah. And some crisps. View quote
Noel Fielding
The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land. View quote
Miriam Makeba
Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, To die to give you life, to rest under your sky; And in your enchanted land forever sleep. View quote
José Rizal
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people. (Ismail Haniyeh)
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in. View quote
Jacques Delors
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others. View quote
Chinua Achebe