Land Quotes - Page 18

Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.

Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place. The story confronts but does not oppress; the story inspires but does not manipulate. The story invites us to an encounter, a dialogue, a mutual sharing. As long as we have stories to tell to each other there is hope. As long as we can remind each other of the lives of men and women in whom the love of God becomes manifest, there is reason to move forward to new land in which new stories are hidden.

Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being. It's bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there [on Mount Rushmore], the shrine of hypocrisy.

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

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.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.