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Quotes About Land

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.
~ Thomas King
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.
~ Jackie Mason
I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.
~ Mark Mason
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
~ Abram Joseph Ryan
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
~ Neil Gaiman
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.
~ Gary Bauer
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
~ Dogen
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
~ James Larkin
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
~ Stephen Gardiner
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
~ Felicia Hemans
We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.
~ Selma Dabbagh, Out of It
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
~ Khalil Gibran
In the long vista of the years to roll,\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.
~ John Keats
Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.
~ John Dominic Crossan
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
~ James Larkin
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
~ Jerry Falwell
You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"
~ Dylan Moran
We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.
~ Graham Spaid, tireless:
Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.
~ Eva Longoria
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
~ Malcolm X