Land Quotes - Page 5

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

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Community, Special, Massachusetts

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• Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Hurt, Helping, Combat

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• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  Billy Sunday

  Fall, Trying, Reform

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Father

  On Wales, in 'Adam' December 1953

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• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sea, Fortune, Armament

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• 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?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cat

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

  Loretta Lynn

  Travel, Holy, Funny Travel

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

  William S. Burroughs

  Dirty, America, Evil

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.153, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

  Spotted Tail

  Children, Father, Spring

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• And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

  Roy Bean

  Winter, Wind, Snow

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• I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

  Aldo Leopold

  Philosophy, Journey, Ends

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.1213, Library of America

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• I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

  Aldo Leopold

  Thinking, Community, Mind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

  Jim Costa

  Party, Accountability, Doe

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• We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Thank You God, Thank God

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

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.

  Canasatego

  Native American, Thinking, White

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• This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

  John F. Kennedy

  Springtime, Affection, Birth

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.541, Best Books on

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• For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

  Henry George

  Use, Denial, Produce

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

  David Attenborough

  Travel, Mean, Past

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• 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.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Strong Women, Stars, Space

  "What? Is! the Meaning of Life" by Dream Catcher Paul Fisette, (p. 79), 2008.

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• The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Art, Peace

  Morihei Ueshiba (2002). “The Art of Peace”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Civilization, Sight

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  America, Environmental, Today

  Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  War, Women, Feminist

  Quoted in Look, 5 Mar. 1957

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