Quotes of Land - somelinesforyou

“ "Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — . ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream's waters. This land was made for you and me. ”

- Woody Guthrie

“ Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ”

- Zora Neale Hurston

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! ”

- William Pitt

“ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. - Robert F. Goheen. ”

- Robert F. Goheen

“ 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

“ A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce. ”

- Geena Davis

“ Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ”

- Sinclair Lewis

“ Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. ”

- Bible

“ If a man owns land, the land owns him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You are the land. The land is you. ”

- Unknown

“ Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ”

- Timothy Dwight

“ Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. ”

- John Parker

“ Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Republic of letters. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground. ”

- George Eliot

“ It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. ”

- Bible

“ There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ”

- John Wayne

“ Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. ”

- Ludovico Ariosto
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