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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,
36
"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."
35
"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?"
29
"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."
11
"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."
8
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
8
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
8
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
7
"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
7
"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."
7
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
6
"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
6
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
6
"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."
6
"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?"
6
"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
5
"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."
5
"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."
5
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."
5
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
5
"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,
5
"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."
Land,
5
"Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions."
4
"Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted."
4
"We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements."
4
"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
Land,
4
"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."
Land,
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."
4
"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,
4
"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
Land,
4
"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."
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