Quotes About Territory

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

The struggle against terrorists in the territory of Syria should be structured in cooperation with the Syrian government, which clearly stated its readiness to join it.

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.

Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?" "How so?" "Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was war. I guess that humans are the only things on earth that take everything they own and fence it off.

War, like human settlement, is a function of geology.

All that is of dragons belongs only to dragons.

But weirdness is relative in the territory occupied by the mentally deranged.

That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.

He doesn't shit on what we claim as our own and still command that loyalty.

You killed Rice Wheeler, he said, the Panhandle gunman. He should have stayed in the Panhandle, I said.

You killed Rice Wheeler, he said, the Panhandle gunman. He should have stayed in the Panhandle, I said.

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.

All on this side [of] the Mississippi must be ours, including both Floridas," he had already argued to McHenry in early 1798.

As far as Chess, Carley Co.'s territory is concerned, every effort is being made to dislodge Rice.

I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.

Each dog barks in its own yard.

to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting-grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white

Each dog barks in his own yard! We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs. The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!

We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go;

Each dog barks in his own yard!

Fifty million Arabs in seven neighboring Arab states, five regular Arab armies, a million Arabs in Palestine—against 650,000 Jews.

But artists and writers and musicians like your dad are helpless to resist the dark side's pull. This is territory that books know well, and it's our job not to turn away from it, whether we like it or not.

How many victims, how much blood and suffering, are connected with this business of borders! There is no end to the cemeteries of those who have been killed the world over in the defense of borders. Equally boundless are the cemeteries of the audacious who attempted to expand their borders. It is safe to assume that half of those who have ever walked upon our planet and lost their lives in the field of glory gave up the ghost in battles begun over a question of borders.