Land Quotes - Page 5

• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

  George W. Bush

  Second Chance, America, Path

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

  Spotted Tail

  Children, Father, Spring

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• The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Taken, Equality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Community, Special, Massachusetts

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• Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Hurt, Helping, Combat

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sea, Fortune, Armament

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cat

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Israel, Europe

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• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Literature, Marvellous

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

  Aldo Leopold

  Thinking, Community, Mind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

  Aldo Leopold

  Philosophy, Journey, Ends

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.1213, Library of America

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• It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

  Jim Costa

  Party, Accountability, Doe

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• We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Thank You God, Thank God

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.

  Canasatego

  Native American, Thinking, White

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• This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

  John F. Kennedy

  Springtime, Affection, Birth

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.541, Best Books on

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• For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

  Henry George

  Use, Denial, Produce

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

  David Attenborough

  Travel, Mean, Past

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• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Strong Women, Stars, Space

  "What? Is! the Meaning of Life" by Dream Catcher Paul Fisette, (p. 79), 2008.

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• All of the land of Israel is ours.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Israel

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• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  John Jakes

  California, Gold, Treasure

  John Jakes (2012). “California Gold”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Practice, Pieces, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

  Francois Quesnay

  Giving, Stills, Property

  "The EuroAtlantic Union Review: Vol. 1 - No. 0/2014". Book by Dario Velo, p. 96, 2014.

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