Land Quotes - Page 120

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

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.

When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations, which I don't agree with, or with private property principles. Nobody has the right to pollute their neighbors' air or water or land.