Land Quotes - Page 20

• An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Success, Heart

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)”, p.281, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Fall, Sunset

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Evening”

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• In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

  Robert Rodale

  Garden, Made, Gardener

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• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Garden, Cities, City Planning

  My Summer in a Garden "SixteenthWeek" (1870)

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• Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

  Kathryn Gustafson

  Garden, Design, Soul

  "A memorial to incompetence" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2005.

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• Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

  Stephen Leacock

  Hockey, Winter, Nhl

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• If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.

  Cole Porter

  Cute, Jail, Bail

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Change, Giving Up, War

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

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• They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Flight

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• Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

  Paul of the Cross

  Spring, Flower, Exercise

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• "The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Flower, Turtles

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• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

  Alistair Cooke

  Morning, Golf, Player

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• Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

  Alistair Cooke

  Moving, Golf, Guy

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing

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• Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Golf, Hard

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• Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

  Johnny Miller

  Golf, Water, Heaven

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• If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Leader, Friendly

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.

  Country Joe McDonald

  War, Future, Hands

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• In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Today, Poverty

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

  David Lloyd George

  Heart, Mean, Age

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• Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Business, Men

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• The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Sea, Miles

  Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.25, Gottfried & Fritz

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• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.

  Jackie Kay

  Death, Home, Dying

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, Men, Justice

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• We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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