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Quotes About Lands

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
~ I. L. Peretz
Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.
~ Alec-Tweedie
health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
~ Helen Keller
Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.
~ Martin Luther
I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence
~ Frank O'Hara
When scriptures spread through the lands, it was impure to strive for nonvirtue
~ Jane Hawes
have nothing to give you," he said, "save this advice —that you return swiftly to where you came from and carry my word to your chief. Later I will come and make inquiries." The men were not satisfied, and an elder, wrinkled with age, and sooty-grey of head, spoke up. "It is said, master," he mumbled, through his toothless jaws, "that in other lands when men starve there come many white men bringing grain and comfort.
~ Edgar Wallace
on the west, the Atlantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. ^4
~ Edward Gibbon
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
~ Edward Lear
Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew: Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.
~ Alexander Pope
Conserving the Rim of the Valley Corridor is critical to helping California and the nation meet our goal of conserving 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.
~ Alex Padilla
Our lands and waters share incredible bounty and beauty. Trekking across forests and mountains, exploring beaches in search of shellfish, and fishing from clear waters are all part of our regional way of life and economy.
~ Jay Inslee
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
~ Andrei Codrescu
I traveled among unknown men,In lands beyond the sea;Nor, England! did I know till thenWhat love I bore to thee.
~ William Wordsworth
More relevant is the 'Orientalism' that Said (1978) identified as the 'cultural imaginary' and mode of governance of Muslim lands by Western imperial powers, especially from the 19th century onwards.
~ Ali Rattansi
She was arriving with an agenda—drop the suit against Robert, first, and agree to dissolve the association for the purpose of donating the lands to a trust—but coached herself that it would be wise to consider his concerns before she asked for anything. Archie wore a gilded cape of male vanity and would need it admired.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
According to Mackinder, Europe and the Middle East are much more affected by the Heartland than India and China, whose hundreds of millions of people are self-contained and thus able to peacefully develop. This leads him to predict that the future lies to a large extent in the "Monsoon lands of India and China."38
~ Robert D. Kaplan
The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through strange lands where no humans lived.
~ Knut Hamsun
The North Country is purple, and it's the Country of the Gillikins. The East Country is blue, and that's the Country of the Munchkins. Down at the South is the red Country of the Quadlings, and here, in the West, the yellow Country of the Winkies.
~ L. Frank Baum
Kill if you will, but command me nothing!' the gunslinger roared. 'You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands
I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.
~ Christopher Columbus
Federal support for Morristown National Historic Park and the inclusion of additional lands present a unique opportunity for our government to express its commitment to preserving our past. Failing to do so may allow these historically important lands to go unprotected.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
Ancient lands, in all their prehistoric intactness: lake-solitudes hardly brushed by the hurrying feet of the centuries where the uninterrupted pedigrees of pelican and ibis and heron evolve their slow destinies in complete seclusion.
~ Lawrence Durrell