Quotes About Territory

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

them, though, tigers can easily go for

The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and the result was always a terrific fight. The aggressor was always the warehouse cat yet it was always the attic cat who managed to win - just like among nations.

It was his own soul he was exploring, the one territory from which there was no escape, the one enemy which must always be faced, sooner or later, more certain than anything else in life or death.

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?" R. M. T. Hunter wanted to know.

Stay out of this, Zebulon. (Dolophoni) You guys come to my town, you don't call. You don't write. And you expect me to just let you run amok in front of the humans? Really, Deimos, don't tread here unless you want to bleed. (ZT)

Then we have an understanding. Keep the riffraff off my turf or I mop the floor with all of you. (ZT)

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an alien world. Just enter those gates and you are in alien territory.

This book describes a clinical map of the abduction territory, which I believe shows that we are dealing with a phenomenon that may not originate in our physical reality but penetrates variably into it or manifests within it in a variety of ways.

fensiveness n. A knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions.

king of a large and fruitful territory there feeds, lodges, and is clad worse than a day-labourer in England.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.

Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

The Cherokee Nation… is a distinct community, occupying its own territory… which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

This was his wood, his mountain.

If you cover the whole damn landscape and keep breeding even when you encroach on other people's nesting grounds, I don't see how you can complain about a little volcano.