Land Quotes

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
Leonard Cohen

Dreams, Nation, Beyond

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
Robert Mugabe

Done, Said, Step

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather

Work, Liked, Goods

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
Paul Tsongas

Young, Water, Air

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.
Marco Rubio

God, Blessings, Place

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Giving

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold

Justice, Important, Liberty

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
David Lynch

Between, Here, Off

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
Chinua Achebe

Women, Men, Different

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

Future, Sea, Question

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
Sitting Bull

Food, Children, Mean

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
William Jennings Bryan

Humanity, Liberty, Between

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Pope Paul VI

Mother, She, Moses

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
Al Gore

Change, Money, Future

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Try, Between

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence

Family, Men, Free

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
Robert Plant

Keep, Lifetime, Awards

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

Lies, Side, Wilderness

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac

Men, Best, Nightmare

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

Women, Men, America

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull

Money, White, Thief

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
Robert Mugabe

Knowledge, True, Few

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
Brigitte Bardot

Country, Again, Muslims

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
David Duchovny

Death, Human, Country

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Long, Country, High

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

War, Destiny, Defined

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Bertolt Brecht

Unhappy, Heroes

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
Chris Farley

Nose, Half, King

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad

Life, Faith, Strength

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
Rick Perry

Work, Home, Everything

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