Land Quotes - page 2

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision. (Masashi Kishimoto)

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Joan D. Vinge

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's.

George Eliot

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer.

Thomas Carlyle

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Thornton Wilder

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

Jack Kerouac

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

Robert Frost

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Norman Mailer

All of the land of Israel is ours.

Yitzhak Shamir

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

Mencius

ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Jon Stewart

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.

Beatrix Potter

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Willa Cather

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife.

Amy Tan

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. (Oliver Goldsmith)

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Oliver Goldsmith

The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

Francisco Franco

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

Christopher Isherwood

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

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