Quotes About Land

Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.

Curran, please don't bite his head off." "Why?" "Because it's illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn." "I didn't throw him very far." I rolled my eyes. "I could've thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement." "That would also be illegal." "You keep bringing this 'illegal' thing up as if it means something to me.

It is a basic rule of any galactic warfare. Never get into a land war with a vampire. Especially during the Feudal period.

Cerise Mar voiced a polite and a nonviolent request that they get the hell off our land, which was refused.

What could the locals gain by setting you up?" I asked Arland. "A war with House Krahr on this planet. Since they're a local House they likely have no idea of our capabilities. They probably want my uncle's cousin's land. Or perhaps they want to claim that I attacked them, so that they can demand financial compensation." He grinned at me. "Either way, it will be exciting.

It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.

The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.

Todo esto es tuyo, abuelo? - Todo, desde la carretera panamericana hasta la punta de esos cerros. ¿Los ves? - ¿Por qué, abuelo? - ¡Cómo que por qué! ¡Porque soy el dueño, claro! - Sí, ¿pero por qué eres el dueño? - Porque era de mi familia. - ¿Por qué? - Porque se la compararon a los indios. - Y los inquilinos, los que también han vivido aquí siempre, ¿por qué no son ellos los dueños?

Fourth of July picnic. And by the way, that picnic, like everything else in this land, is a model of efficiency: you drive at top speed, set up in a previously reserved space, spread out the baskets, bolt your food, kick the ball, and rush home to avoid the traffic. In Chile, a similar project would take three days.

Tampoco entendían que los extranjeros plantaran una bandera en el suelo, marcaran líneas imaginarias, lo declararan de su propiedad y se ofendieran si alguien entraba persiguiendo a un venado. La idea de poseer la tierra les resultaba tan inverosímil como la de repartirse el mar.

Our land only rewards those who work hard in it.

Nunca hay que vender la tierra. Es lo único que queda cuando todo se acaba

Nunca hay que vender la tierra. Es lo único que queda cuando todo lo demás se acaba.

'Slow West' is a film that I did with Michael Fassbender in New Zealand and Scotland. The director was John McLean. It's a film set in the 1800s. I play a young Scottish boy brought up in the royal family. I fall in love with someone who works on our land.

One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.

Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that 'God gave them the land.' The size of the alleged God-given land has never been determined and Israel's borders still remain fuzzy.

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

When you travel to a new country, your spirit has to catch up with you. I love going for a run when I land; it keeps me active and helps my body adjust to the new time zone.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.