Land Quotes

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

Women, Men, War

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
William Pennington

Peace, Alone, Live

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.
Bill O'Reilly

Government, Mean, American

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy; reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.
Wilbur Smith

Women, Great, Men

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.
Mark Roberts

Thought, America, Free

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Yasser Arafat

Death, Law, Both

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Howard Dean

Truth, Die, Why

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.
Thomas Menino

Free, American, Journey

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
Lawrence Kasdan

Travel, Movies, Everyone

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Charles Dudley Warner

City, Taxes, Generally

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Great, Freedom, Strong

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
Ariel Sharon

Change, Future, Live

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
Bashar al-Assad

Her, Water, Priorities

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida

Democracy, Problems, Return

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.
Luke Scott

Life, God, Death

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. Housman

Happy, Lost, Cannot

Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.
Chris Pratt

York, Cynical, Writers

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
Jeffrey Archer

Travel, Leaving, Period

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Difficult, State, Possible

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
Mike Mills

Time, Character, Living

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.
Rick Scott

Laws, Supposed, Enforce

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
Juan Goytisolo

Away, Values, Stranger

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
Emma Goldman

Whole, Often, Vision

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones

Time, History, Knowing

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando

Knowledge, Thinking, Cannot

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
Malcolm Turnbull

Love, Home, Sorry

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
Wolfgang Puck

Place, Culture, Cooking

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.
Darren Criss

Work, Happy, Moon

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Yann Martel

Love, Faith, Beautiful

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