Quotes About Land

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

The railroad they built yonder wasn't even a decent road, but they'd been granted all that land by a rotten Congress that they'd bought up—land on both sides of the tracks for miles and miles, east and west. That's what they were after, you see. They got all that land along the right of way—hundreds of thousands of acres—and it never cost them a cent of their own money.

The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

We always used to think it didn't matter, that when you mined out one area, or farmed it out, or overgrazed it, you could move to new country beyond the hills, keep moving West. But there are no new places to go anymore. The land is full. We have to stay where we are, take care of what we have. There isn't going to be anything else.

There are no vacant lots in nature.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know.

The Chuds, the Slavs, and the Krivchians then said to the peoples of Rus: "Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come to rule and reign over us."

Ich am of IrlondeAnt of the holy landeOf Irlonde.Gode sire, pray ich the,For of saynte charite,Come ant dance wyth meIn Irlonde.

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

If I had a hammer,I'd hammer in the morning,I'd hammer in the evening,All over this land.I'd hammer out danger,I'd hammer out a warning,I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,All over this land.

Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you.

A land flowing with milk and honey.

And they came into the land of Goshen.

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land.

When good King Arthur ruled this land,He was a goodly king,He bought three pecks of barley meal,To make a bag pudding.

It is not humanity that will tear the land asunder, but a certain inhumanity born from ingratitude and the explosion of souls_ in the usual name of progress.

It is all very beautiful and magical here---a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.

Out of this catastrophe, the only people to profit were the surviving peasants, whose labor was now in great demand. With fewer to farm the land, workers could charge more for their services, though rulers attempted to legislate against this.

The West is eveningland, the East morningland.

Drunken, foolhardy Aethon mistakes a magical city in a play for a real place. He sets off for Thessaly, land of magic, and accidentally turns himself into a donkey.

A piece of land not so very large, with a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and up above these a bit of woodland.