Land Quotes - Page 4

• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

  Hesiod

  Cities, People, Giving

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• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Donald Justice

  Journey, Silence, Ease

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf

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• There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

  Harriet Martineau

  Mind, Pieces, Estates

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.411, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Cogs, Tinkering, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  Wendell Johnson

  Waiting, Forgotten, Moses

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• 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.

  David Douglas

  Long, Joy, Employment

  David Douglas, John Davies (1979). “Douglas of the Forests: The North American Journals of David Douglas”, Edinburgh : P. Harris Pub.

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• America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

  Virginia Foxx

  Fighting, America, Doe

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• Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

  Alfred Marshall

  Names, Producers, Surplus

  Alfred Marshall, Peter Groenewegen (1997). “Collected works”

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• Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

  David Ricardo

  Agriculture, Together, Usual

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1871). “The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.371

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• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Travel, People

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Eye, Men, Fit

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 12, 2010.

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• I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

  Moses

  Stranger, Has Beens, Foreign Lands

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• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

  Matthew Henson

  Ice, Wind, Snow

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• 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

  Years, People, Hundred

  "The Gift Outright" l. 1 (1942).

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• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Equality, Iraq, America

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• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Believe, Earth, Modesty

  1924 The Gift of Black Folk, ch.9.

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• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

  George W. Bush

  Second Chance, America, Path

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Israel, Europe

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• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Literature, Marvellous

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Love, Life, Truth

  Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

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• Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Book, Reality

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• The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Taken, Equality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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