Land Quotes - Page 38

• In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

  Barry Lopez

  Fall, Ignorance, Imagine

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• The land is like poetry:   it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

  Barry Lopez

  Consideration, Human Life, Humans

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.356, Open Road Media

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• I think the thing that -- the prayer that I would like America is to ask for is to pray for God's protection for our land and our people, to pray against -- that there's a shield of protection, so that if the evil ones try to hit us again, that we've done everything we can, physically, and that there is a spiritual shield that protects the country.

  George W. Bush

  Spiritual, Country, Prayer

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• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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• I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Dream, America, Tonight

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Rain, Moving, Lakes

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• You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

  James Callaghan

  Future, Government, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  Paul McCartney

  Rain, Future, Sky

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• If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.

  Peter Singer

  Zoos, Real, Moving

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Historical

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

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• There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

  Isaac Watts

  Pain, Night, Saint

  Isaac Watts (1811). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... With some additional hymns, taken from the Doctor's sermons”, p.180

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• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Loneliness, Growth

  "Shimon Peres welcomes Arab uprisings" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Change, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Patrick Renshaw (1998). “Democracy in America”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

  Jean Giono

  Spring

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• Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

  John Dryden

  Winter, Wings, Fowl

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400

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• The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

  Ansel Adams

  Glowing, Sky, Details

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

  James F. Byrnes

  Workout, Our Generation, Generations

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• A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

  Edward Abbey

  Four, Herds, Ranchers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

  John Banville

  Horizon, Littles, Mud

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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• May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.

  George Washington

  Spiritual, Independent, Blessing

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.186

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• If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.

  Paul Revere

  Country, Night, Sea

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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Laughter, Rivers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet, Clouds, Air

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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• The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

  James Truslow Adams

  Dream, Opportunity, Achievement

  James Truslow Adams (2017). “The Epic of America”, p.258, Routledge

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