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Land Quotes
"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."
46
"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating."
Land,
44
"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?"
43
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
16
"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."
16
"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."
15
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
14
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
12
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
12
"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."
12
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
12
"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."
11
"Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions."
10
"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."
10
"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,
10
"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."
Land,
10
"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."
10
"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?"
10
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
9
"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."
9
"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,
9
"We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements."
8
"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."
8
"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."
8
"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."
Land,
8
"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."
8
"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
8
"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."
8
"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."
7
"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."
7
"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
7
"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."
7
"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
7
"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,
7
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
7
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