Land Quotes - Page 9

• Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Justice, Helping

  Song: Hurricane, Album: Desire

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• If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

  Stuart Hill

  Stars, Might, Hills

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• I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Empathy, Tears

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• All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

  William Nicholson

  Lonely, Fall, Dark

  William Nicholson (2002). “Firesong”, Egmont Books (UK)

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• You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

  Brian Jacques

  Loyalty, Dream, Frustration

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• If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight.

  Jay Asher

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Thrones, Kingdoms

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hate, Book, Sea

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• Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Water, Analogies

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.

  Jodi Picoult

  Evil, Healthy, Yeast

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

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• In the land of badass, you’ve just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of War because that’s what they thrive on, they’re cold-blooded and intolerant. Congratulations, bud, these are your new protectors. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Badass, War

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.302, Macmillan

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• If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the Underland a tomb Hear it scratching down below, Rat of long forgotten snow, Evil cloaked in coat of White, Will the Warrior drain your light? What could turn the Warrior week? What do burning Gnawers seek? Just a barely speaking pup That holds the Land of Under up Die the baby, die his heart Die his most essential part Die the peace that rules the hour, Gnawers have their key to power

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Heart, Warrior

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• Ah, Eugenie. I know. We will be victorious, you and me. We're the strongest monarchs in this world. You and I will lead this army, and we will conquer the Rowan land. We'll split it between us, adding on to our kingdoms...and from there, we can go anywhere. We could rule half this world together - all of this world - you and me. Kingdom after kingdom would fall to us.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Army, Together

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.808, Zebra Books

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  I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, Adventure, Sea

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

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• We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Animal, Glasses

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Thinking, Should Have

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Beast, Fear No Evil

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.272, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Look, I don’t care what the Ooga-Boogas do. It sounds like they need a family counselor, not a sniper. (Steele) They’re not Ooga-Boogas, they’re Uhbukistanis. (Syd) Whatever. My personal belief is that we should leave Ooga-Booga Land to the Oomp-Loompas. Let them fight it out with the Snozzwangers, Wangdoogles, and the mean Vermicious Knids. I’d rather go peal carrots with a spoon. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Fighting, Sound

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• Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, 2011.

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Community, Earth

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.18, Library of America

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• If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

  Maya Angelou

  Uncles, Kindness, Men

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• Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.22, Candlewick Press

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• And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

  Simon Armitage

  War, Loss, Hands

  Simon Armitage (2011). “Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde”, p.22, Guanda

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• I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Comfort, Cottages

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.174, BookBaby

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