Land Quotes

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.

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

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.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

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

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.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.