Quotes About Territory

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.

No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

We need to defend the fruits of our land.

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

A visão monocular do nosso universo diz que você não deve buscar muito longe os seus problemas. Esses problemas talvez nunca cheguem. Em vez disso, cuido do lobo que está dentro do seu território. As alcateias que vagam lá fora talvez nem sequer existam.

Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other's sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.

There is no country that has made as many concessions as Israel. Since 1967, we gave up territory that is three times the size of Israel. We showed willingness.

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

The system in which I came up in was that every territory had to have a black, a white... if you went to Texas you had to have somebody that was a cowboy or one that was from Mexico. There wasn't that many Afro Americans in the business at the time so I moved around a lot. But every time I moved around, I made money.

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

The autumn rains had erased the tracks made by horses and men, the forest reclaiming its territory.

The frontiers of the Greek state as we know it today mostly date from as recently as 1913.

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

Sicily had been effectively divided between the Greeks in the east of the island and the Carthaginians in the west.

Sparta, by contrast, concentrated its power on land.

much of Bulgaria, Albania, the Republic of North Macedonia, and all the European part of Turkey.

Now the decision was taken to abandon the defence of the European provinces altogether