Land Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Islands, Tasks

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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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• it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

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• Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Sea, Deeds

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• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Noise, Doe

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• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

  Malcolm X

  Godly, People, Judging

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

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• Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Country

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

  George Washington

  Religious, Heart, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.202

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• It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

  T. S. Eliot

  Nature, Struggle, Men

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• And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms. It's time to welcome Him back, because whenever we've opened ourselves and trusted in Him, we've gained not only moral courage but intellectual strength.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Believe, Blessed

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• Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

  William Shakespeare

  Another Day, Revolution, Rebellion

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.420

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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• A land without memories is a people without liberty.

  Robert E. Lee

  Memories, Military, People

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• In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Military, Sun, Looks

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

  Chief Seattle

  Military, Sky, Survival

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• All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.

  Rick Santorum

  People, West, Controversial

  "Santorum: ‘All The People Who Live In The West Bank Are Israelis’". Conversation during a campaign stop in Iowa, thinkprogress.org. November 21, 2011.

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• The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Gay, Law

  Barack Obama's speech on the Supreme Court Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2013.

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• O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

  Lady Gaga

  Stars, Freedom, Home

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• Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

  Milton Berle

  Life, America, Promise

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• Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Attitude, Sleep

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• With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Believe, Thinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.160, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Animal, People

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