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Land Quotes
"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating."
Land,
56
"Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate."
55
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
54
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
25
"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."
24
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
23
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
22
"We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements."
19
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
19
"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."
18
"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."
17
"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution."
17
"Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with."
17
"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."
17
"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."
Land,
17
"The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea."
17
"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
16
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
16
"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 waters This land was made for you and me."
Land,
16
"A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available."
16
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
15
"Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions."
15
"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
15
"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
15
"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
14
"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."
14
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
14
"Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there."
Land,
14
"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."
14
"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
13
"As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo."
13
"Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?"
13
"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
12
"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
12
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