Quotes About Territory

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

I want Israel to have borders. For that, I need a map. I need a map on which our borders are specified.

All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

the idea that poetic practice requires solitude. In the vision Rilke offers, solitude is not merely a matter of being alone: it is a territory to be entered and occupied, and Rilke provides for Kappus (and the rest of us) a map of how to accomplish those ends. The first step is the simple recognition that solitude exists. A lack of connection to other people

In each territory, the dominant misl levied a rakhi (protection tax) on Sikh and non-Sikh peasants.

They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands.

France is fighting for 'La Patrie'; England is fighting for commerce; Italy is fighting to get a slice of Austria, and America is fighting for souvenirs.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.

My scent's all over you. It's inside of you. That's how my people will know who your mate is. It's also a warning.

Contact with humans is to be limited and on their territory only, you know that. And no one lives in this house except brothers and their shellans, if they have them. What about Butch? He's the sole exception. And he's only allowed because V dreams of him. Lover Eternal

Contact with humans is to be limited and on their territory only, you know that. And no one lives in this house except brothers and their shellans, if they have them. What about Butch? 463/1014 He's the sole exception. And he's only allowed because V dreams of him. Lover Eternal

Anyone pretending to be a guide through wild and fabulous territory should know the territory. I wish I knew it better than I do. I am not Jed Smith. But Jed smith is not available these days as a guide, and I am. I accept the duty, at least as much for what I may learn as for what I may be able to tell others.

When male vervet monkeys fight in their wars with other groups of monkeys to protect their territory or to get food, female monkeys reward the best surviving "warriors" by grooming them. The social status of these warrior monkeys goes up, and therefore more female vervet monkeys want to mate with them. In contrast, the female monkeys ignore and "snap" at the male monkeys who abstain from battle.2

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

He did not care what happened as long as he would never be separated from the Master, for he had killed the great fox, and in this miserable, fouled land there was no longer any place for fox, hound, or human being.

The Arab Spring had turned into the Arab Calamity. Radical Islam now controlled a swath of territory that stretched from Afghanistan to Nigeria, an accomplishment that even Bin Laden would have never dreamed possible.

Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

The principle of sovereignty is commonly understood to possess three pri­mary components: 1) The sover­eign possesses absolute authority over the people and territory of a given realm 2) External actors are excluded from possessing or exercising author­ity over the people and territory governed by the sovereign 3) Sovereignty is indivisible-of a single piece, a whole that cannot be disaggregated, shared, or divided between different authorities

The term "Kansas-Nebraska Territory" does not describe the area of Kansas and Nebraska as they are known today. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska territory included not only Kansas and Nebraska but also what is now part of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota and South Dakota. 48 Therefore, by extending slavery into parts of the Kansas-Nebraska territory, Democrats were pushing slavery westward across the nation, essentially from coast to coast.)

Most academic battles involve space or faculty appointments and promotions.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.