Land Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Land

Please enjoy these Land Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

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We gather today in gratitude for the bounty of the land,
the joyful company around this table,
and all the other blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land,
when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles,
is not undertaken without money.
- Lewis Hallam

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior
and the land beyond the garden.
- Stephen Gardiner

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Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who
make a living from the land and for those of us who
use them for recreational purposes.
- Cathy McMorris

I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go to the mountain.
And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land!
I may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life.
My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
- Chief Joseph

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;
you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
- Aldo Leopold

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life,
its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from
which he draws his faith together with his life.
- Joseph Conrad

A man's country is not a certain area of land,
of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle
and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
- George William Curtis

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
- Clarence Darrow

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20
to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
- James Lovelock

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
- Aldo Leopold

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor
in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Khalil Gibran

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting,
not help.
- Phyllis Schlafly

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land...
let there be no more wars.
- Anwar Sadat

And when you really think about the 9-11 event,
the horrific attack on our land here in America and
the death of three thousand of out loved ones,
it was a defining moment.
- Donald Evans

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
- Audrey Hepburn

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
- Francis Parker Yockey

America, thou half-brother of the world;
with something good and bad of every land.
- Philip James Bailey

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back.
Because if you can look up, you can get up.
Let your reason get you back up.
- Les Brown

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer,
nobler, higher, and more moral...
Agriculture should be at the basis of everything.
That's my idea.
- Nikolai Gogol

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
- Laurence J. Peter

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools
of thought contend is the policy for promoting the
progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
- Mao Zedong

Anything to do with the land, I love.
- Chris LeDoux

Heinlein never had a best-seller.
Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land,
I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
- Jerry Pournelle

All I had to do was go out and perform.
One of the hardest things was doing those back flips,
where you had to jump up and land on the top rope.
It's precision movement.
- Owen Hart

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the
white people I would feel guilty of taking food away
from our children's mouths,
and I do not wish to be that mean.
- Sitting Bull

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land,
and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
- James H. Douglas

For our immediate family and relatives,
Canada was a land of opportunity.
- Sidney Altman

The first treasure California began to surrender after
the Gold Rush as the oldest:
her land.
- John Jakes

The problem is we disagree about the origin.
Is this occupied land or not?
- Hassan Nasrallah

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers.
They bought the land.
No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
- Robert Mugabe

This is where young players today want to land.
They want to be NBA players because of the money.
- Oscar Robertson

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and
the airport air is not laden with evil any more,
you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
- Janet Suzman

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.
- William Robertson Smith

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land.
Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
- Ahmed Yassin

The holy land was supposed to be spotless,
a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single
candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
- Marvin Olasky

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice,
snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
- Matthew Henson

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world
often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with
his surroundings as in his native land.
- Emma Goldman

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes
that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not
often let their presence be known.
- W. E. B. Du Bois

In the decade before the Civil War various north and
south lines of railway were projected and some of these
were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
- John Moody

My father's generation gave to my generation a land
of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
- Paul Tsongas

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land;
so I'm fresh,
rested and ready to work on arrival.
- Eva Herzigova

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes.
When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
- Desmond Tutu

I am still doing my due diligence.
A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment
and when the court decides,
it is the law of the land.
- Robert Menendez

For a short time we lived quietly.
But this could not last.
White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
- Chief Joseph

I will burn your city, your land, your self.
- Hulagu Khan

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.
Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air
and giving fresh strength to our people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid
artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
- Joseph Hume

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land,
with plenty of water; and there, as well as here,
the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
- Junipero Serra

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America
lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if
the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.
- Ron Kind

There have been few things in my life which have had
a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
- Harriet Martineau

If I were to live my life over again,
I would be an American.
I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
- Henry James

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull,
would not the land flow with milk and honey?
- Oliver St.
John

There is no way to ease the burden.
The voyage leads on from harm to harm,
A land of others and of silence.
- Donald Justice

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life,
the outside, the unknown.
- Stephen Gardiner

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the
continent like whales that have taken to the land.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom
and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
- Bob Taft

I wish that all of nature's magnificence,
the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
- Annie Leibovitz

We have not invaded anyone.
We have not conquered anyone.
We have not grabbed their land, their culture,
their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
- Abdul Kalam

And finally Winter, with its bitin',
whinin' wind,
and all the land will be mantled with snow.
- Roy Bean

The air we breathe, the water we drink,
and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements
in the quality of life we enjoy -
they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.
- Rick Perry

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam
Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
- Mary Chapin Carpenter

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days
ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure
of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.
- David Douglas

Without that sense of security which property gives,
the land would still be uncultivated.
- Francois Quesnay

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land,
through his iron, through his blood.
- Ernst Moritz Arndt

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
- Ken Kesey

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