Territory Quotes - page 3

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone. View quote
Joseph Stalin
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter. View quote
George Rogers Clark
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said. View quote
Quentin Crisp
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... View quote
Larry Wall
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans.... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them. View quote
John Ralston Saul
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Love's easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story. View quote
Melina Marchetta
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory. View quote
Neal Shusterman
The [Nazi] regime was also able to use the state-owned multi-nationals as a ‘battering ram' for entering economies that were not occupied territory. (Richard Overy)
The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. View quote
Robert James Waller
I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. View quote
Rose Tremain
So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research. View quote
Rose Tremain
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. View quote
Stacy Schiff
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
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. View quote
Eartha Kitt
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. View quote
John Boyd Orr
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory. View quote
Etgar Keret
Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory. View quote
Candace Bushnell
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. (Quincy Jones)
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. View quote
Leon Panetta
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. View quote
Meriwether Lewis
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. View quote
Harvey Pekar
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. View quote
Ann Hood