Lands Quotes

The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.

Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.

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.

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.

There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

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

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

We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land;

it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life.

Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

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

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American.

I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college.

The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

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