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  • Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places. -- Patricia A. McKillip
  • Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. -- John Keats
  • I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. -- Shinzo Abe
  • Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind -- Peter Weiss
  • Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. -- William Wordsworth
  • I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea. -- Ralph Nader
  • In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea. -- Winston Churchill
  • But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent. -- Louis Agassiz
  • Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read! -- Michael Connelly
  • Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. -- Shinzo Abe
  • He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you kill them. He is there to fight piracy, greed, and cruelty in all their forms on land and sea -- Billy Zane
  • The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows. -- Paul Goodman
  • The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove, and realize you'll be walking along this spectacular meeting of land and sea for the next two hours. -- Doug Ferguson
  • Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together. -- Ovid
  • So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees... -- John Muir
  • Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body. -- Eve Ensler
  • 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. -- Paul Revere
  • Praise the Sea, but keepe on land. -- George Herbert
  • Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. -- William Shakespeare
  • That night, the sea had invaded the land. -- Lexie Conyngham
  • One if by land, two if by sea. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Never travel by sea when you can go by land. -- Cato the Younger
  • When you are at sea, keep clear of the land. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. -- George Herbert
  • The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Like the land joining the sea,Happiness it followed me. -- Marina and the Diamonds
  • The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. -- Humphrey Gilbert
  • Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. -- Alan Coren
  • The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea. -- Paul Revere
  • The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore. -- Lucy Larcom
  • Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air. -- Louis Zamperini
  • Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman. -- Menander
  • A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. -- Lewis Hallam
  • On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. -- Yvor Winters
  • When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. -- Samuel Johnson
  • The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. -- William Wordsworth
  • The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. -- Robert Browning
  • Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . . -- Ernest Hemingway
  • There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. -- Robert Ballard
  • Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.] -- George Herbert
  • Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air. -- Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
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  • Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. -- William Shakespeare
  • Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. -- Carl Sandburg
  • They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -- Francis Bacon
  • It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. -- Lucretius
  • Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.... -- William Butler Yeats
  • Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly. -- Carl Sandburg
  • So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey. -- John Milton
  • Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. -- Pericles
  • There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman. -- Menander
  • There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky -- Umair Siddiqui
  • Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died. -- Junipero Serra
  • A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea -- Helen Keller
  • Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be. -- William Ross Wallace
  • When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. -- Abraham Cowley
  • Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. -- Horace
  • Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! -- Lord Byron
  • The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea. -- Katherine McIntyre
  • I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. -- Alan Bennett
  • It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. -- Lucretius
  • The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect. -- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
  • The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. -- Yvor Winters
  • Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? -- James Clavell
  • If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. -- William Halsey
  • Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. -- Pliny the Younger
  • It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight. -- Ovid
  • The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them. -- Epictetus
  • The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home. -- Ovid
  • Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me. -- Maud Lindsay
  • There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose. -- Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. -- Saddam Hussein
  • The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...? -- William Butler Yeats
  • I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea. -- Michael Apted
  • There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. -- Herman Melville
  • The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it. -- Robert Ballard
  • With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. -- Victor Hugo
  • All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world." -- Victor Hugo
  • I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. -- Hassan Nasrallah
  • More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air. -- Nick Lampson
  • The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. -- Rachel Carson
  • The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air. -- John S. McCain, Jr.
  • We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity. -- Philip Hammond
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