Quotes About Settlement

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

We were looking for an acceptable compromise.

We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.

There was thus a Hittite population which clustered round Hebron, and to whom the origin of Jerusalem was partly due.

We know that some early humans migrated into Asia and Europe within the last quarter of a million years, but their dominion outside of Africa was temporary, and they probably leave no descendants today. Around seventy thousand years ago another group of people drifted away from Africa, and the process of setting down new roots all over this planet began.

The story of the conquest and settlement as it now appears in the book of Joshua is a literary, ideological construct, the result of many editions, revisions, and additions, reflecting changing concepts of the fulfillment of the divine promise of the land over a long period of time.

It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

I backpacked all around the world and kind of found myself. Then I settled back in L.A. and found 'Rookie Blue.'

When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford.

It is our belief that nations should embrace dialogue and peaceful settlement of disputes instead of rushing to arms, for suffering and bloodshed will ensue.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

I cleaned my room - I've been living out of suitcases. I live in London; I've been here six years and I still haven't got myself an English phone.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

How dear will you be to me then, you nights of affliction. Why couldn't I kneel more deeply and accept you, inconsolable sisters, or lose myself more freely in your loosened hair. We spendthrifts of sorrows. How we scan beyond them ahead into sad duration to see if perhaps they might have an end. But they are truly our winter-hardy foliage, the dark green of our life's meaning, one season of our secret year—, not only time—, but also place, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Al fin el tramo se abrió. Apareció una punta rocosa, montículos de tierra levantados en la orilla, casas tendidas en una colina, algunas con tejados metálicos, contra restos de excavaciones y declives.

European and American settlers soon took over the lands that were established for settlement of eastern tribes in what became known as Indian Territory. The Christian god gave them authority. Yet everyone wanted the same thing: land, peace, a place to make a home, cook, fall in love, make children and music.

For somehow, against probability, some sort of indigenous, recognizable culture has been growing on western ranches and in western towns and even in western cities. It is the product not of the boomers but of the stickers, not of those who pillage and run but of those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.

A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very

We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

HAVING ASSEMBLED the men who would plan and take part in his expeditions to America, Ralegh's next task was to determine where a colony should be located and what kind of settlement it would be.