Land Quotes - Page 37

The song and the land are one.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

When making your ass, always draw the shape of Africa. Or as Latrice would say, the homeland.

Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.

My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

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

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.