Land Quotes

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

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.

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.

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.

Here dead lie we 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.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

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

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

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

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.

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

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

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.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

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.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.

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

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

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