Land Quotes - Page 28

• As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

  Charlton Heston

  War, Gun, Issues

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

  Danny Glover

  Native American, Gun, Uprising

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• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Battle, Strange

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (17), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Country, Fashion, Usage

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.57, Rutgers University Press

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• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Worry, Darkness

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• If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Years, People

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

  Louise Erdrich

  Blood, Class, Feet

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• The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

  Pierre Loti

  Moon, Shining, World

  Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Animal, Rocks

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• The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Weed, Ocean, Writing

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• Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life in all its biological diversity. But things could also turn out to be worse than the current scientific best guess. In military affairs, policy has long been based on the dictum that we should be prepared for the worst case. Why should it be so different when the security is that of the planet and our long-term future?

  Prince Charles

  Military, Future, Science

  "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning". Book by Martin Rees (p. 112-113), March 17, 2009.

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• In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.

  Stuart Campbell

  Art, Rain, Utah

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• There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Country, Spring, Flower

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.310, Broadview Press

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• If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.

  Harry Ransom

  Loyalty, Integrity, Men

  Harry Huntt Ransom (1962). “The Vision of Karl Hoblitzelle”

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Military, Army, Men

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• If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.

  Takijiro Onishi

  Beautiful, Military, Men

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• I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Military, War, Army

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• They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Trying

  "Iraq says Baghdad will be coalition's graveyard". www.cnn.com. March 27, 2003.

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• Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fire

  "Purported Saddam message: Burn them in Baghdad". www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Army, Allies

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• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Military, Civilization, Forever

  T. R. Fehrenbach (1994). “This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• 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

  Travel, Drama, Responsibility

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• American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, Government, Iraq

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

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Memories, History, Ruins

  Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

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