Foreign Lands Quotes - Page 3

• A woman is a foreign land.

  Coventry Patmore

  Land

  1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.2,The Espousal, canto 9, prelude 2,'The Foreign Land'.

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

  Abraham Cowley

  Sea, Land, Israel

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.174

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• I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Land, Diaries, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

  Cassandra Clare

  Land, Would Be, Abandon

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

  Zoroaster

  Teaching, Heart, Men

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• Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Country, Land, People

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