Quotes About Land

It was a splendid sight: an army peacefully encamped on land and a great fleet lying quietly offshore.

Eighteen cities in Italy were marked down for land confiscation and freeholders were summarily dispossessed.

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

Everywhere the land was covered by thick and tangled forests and there were few tilled fields.

Amidst the blue ridge mountains, there are remarkable expressions of life. Tapestries woven by generations that are always on trial by those who amputate hope from what once was native land. Digesting each day, the unpleasant taste of yesterday's homemade buttermilk.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

Most Americans support protection of public lands.

It's very difficult to land a punch against Mayweather. But when I land a punch I'm going to hit him and not let him go. I will go after him.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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.

No matter who comes to Belarusian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

We need to defend the fruits of our land.

Full moon calls thee-- Shai-hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is round-- Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.

I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?

We pray to a moon: she is round— Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.

Paul had been caught more by her tone—singsong and wavering—than by her words. "When you live upon Arrakis," she had said, "khala, the land is empty. The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy." Paul had sensed his mother come up beside him away from her post guarding the door. She had looked at the Reverend Mother and asked: "Do you see no hope, Your Reverence?" "Not for the father.

Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.

When you live upon Arrakis," she had said, "khala, the land is empty. The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

I have been a stranger in a strange land

I have been a stranger in a strange land,'" Halleck quoted.

The masses of Arrakis will know that we work to make the land flow with water," his father said. "Most of them, of course, will have only a semimystical understanding of how we intend to do this. Many, not understanding the prohibitive mass-ratio problem, may even think we'll bring water from some other planet rich in it. Let them think anything they wish as long as they believe in us.

When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.