Land Quotes

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol

Experience, Everything, Moral

By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.
James Monroe

Whole, State, Within

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
Artur Davis

America, Wrong, Second

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
Douglas Sirk

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
Bill Frist

Success, Peace, Best

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
Francis Parker Yockey

Nothing, American, Knew

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
Larry Holmes

Today, Strong, Hard

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
Moshe Sharett

Country, Language, Culture

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.
Moshe Sharett

Live, Forget, Others

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.
Erich von Stroheim

Life, Love, Home

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
Susan George

Around, Earth, Surface

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Herbert Croly

Ocean, United, Promise

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
Herbert Croly

Free, Less, Economic

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.
Alex Chiu

Freedom, Cannot, Expect

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

Name, Leading, Producer

And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.
J. D. Hayworth

Peace, Live, Give

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.
Rod Parsley

Marriage, Away, Prayer

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
Marvin Olasky

Single, Serious, Few

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

Great, Matter, Nation

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.
John Prescott

Done, Down, Find

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Sidney Altman

Nature, Time, Government

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Alexandra Paul

Enough, Same, Eat

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
Charles E. Wilson

Same, Become, Here

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
Charles E. Wilson

Future, Before, Wealth

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.
Mark Strong

Children, Learned, Place

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H. Douglas

Freedom, Hard, Difficult

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
Bruce Babbitt

Work, Together, Down

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
Bruce Babbitt

Working, President, Second

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.
Bruce Babbitt

Mistakes, Made, Congress

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson

Money, Today, Young

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