Quotes About Land

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

We, the great mass of the people think only of the love we have for our land, we do love the land where we were brought up. We will never let our hold to this land go, to let it go it will be like throwing away our mother that gave us birth.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers.

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

The Black Death, or plague, had wreaked havoc in the middle decades of the fourteenth century. Economic depression followed the decline of population, abandonment of fertile land, and curtailing of trade. But by the mid-fifteenth century, economic expansion was once again the order of the day.

Julius's successor, Leo X (1513–21), was more pious than his predecessors but no less convinced that the measure of papal greatness was an increase in papal lands and a sponsorship of the arts.

I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on —just as I promised Moses.

The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the most evil race of men.

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

The land belongs to the future.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. -Psalm 37:3-4

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.