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Land Quotes

"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."

"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman

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"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."

"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, Canadian Entertainer

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"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."

"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, American Educator

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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Writer

Land, Man, Poor, Race

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"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"

"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"

Oliver St. John, English Statesman

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"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."

"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."

Samuel Foote, English Dramatist

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"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

Will Carleton, American Poet

Land, May, Ruin

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"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."

"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."

Janine Turner, American Actress

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"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."

"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."

Liberty Hyde Bailey, American Scientist

Land, Mystery, Plants, Sea

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"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."

"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."

William Dampier, English Explorer

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"You are the land. The land is you."

"You are the land. The land is you."

Merlin Olsen, American Athlete

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"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."

"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."

Wendell Johnson, American Psychologist

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"It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon."

"It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon."

Alan Bean, American Astronaut

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"Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land."

"Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence."

"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence."

James Hogg, Scottish Poet

Land, Open, Scotland, Worth

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"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

Lucretius, Roman Poet

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"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."

"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."

Desmond Tutu, South African Leader

Land, Skin, Vote, Southafrican

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"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."

"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."

Felix Marti-Ibanez, Spanish Physician

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"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."

"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician

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"You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land."

"You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

Land, Niagara, Reform

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"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

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"And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay."

"And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay."

George Washington Cable, American Novelist

Land, Mourning, Shadow, Silence

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"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."

"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."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Land, Monuments, President, Protection

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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

Herbert Croly, American Author

Land, Ocean, Promise, States

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"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

John Prescott, British Politician

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"In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king."

"In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king."

Chris Farley, American Comedian

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"The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one."

"The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one."

Larry Holmes, American Athlete

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"I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square."

"I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square."

Mathias Rust, German Celebrity

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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

Georges Clemenceau, French Leader

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"I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."

"I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."

Howell Raines, American Editor

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"Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there."

"Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there."

M. E. W. Sherwood, American Author

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"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."

"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."

Robert McAfee Brown, American Theologian

Land, Prayer, Tourists

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"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."

"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."

Joanna Southcott, English Celebrity

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"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."

"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."

Jack Cade, English Activist

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

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

Francois Quesnay, French Economist

Land, Property, Security, Sense

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"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."

"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."

Jon Stewart, American Entertainer

Land, Old, Thanksgiving

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"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."

"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."

Jules Verne, French Author

Land, Population

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"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."

"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."

Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman

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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."

"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, American Politician

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

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Land, Nothing, Sea

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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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