Land Quotes - Page 68

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

New Zealand looks like the future to me

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

Scotland's voice has to be heard

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands... Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.

Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.

Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.

You are the land. The land is you.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

An evangelist no more imposes his views on others than a pilot imposes his views on his passengers when he lands a plane on a runway. I bet the passengers are glad!

In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.