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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. -- Ivo Andric
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. -- Louis Bacon
You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams. -- Raekwon
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation. -- Samuel Adams
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care. -- Dudley North
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars. -- Colin Firth
I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer. -- William S. Burroughs
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world. -- Elizabeth Crook
I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't. -- Elizabeth Crook
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? -- Arna Bontemps
I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale! -- Curly Howard
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. -- James Monroe
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. -- Josiah Strong
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value. -- Joseph Brant
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? -- Khalil Gibran
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. -- Frederick Sanger
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name. -- Adela Florence Nicolson
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. -- Abraham Lincoln
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. -- Corazon Aquino
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? -- Sitting Bull
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? -- Thomas Clarkson
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. -- Cecil Rhodes
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? -- Muqtada al Sadr
The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies. -- Subcomandante Marcos
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. -- Henry Louis Gates
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. -- Queen Elizabeth II
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. -- Amitabh Bachchan
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. -- John Garamendi
If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race. -- Macaulay Culkin
Ocean separates lands, not souls.. -- Munia Khan
He that hath lands hath quarrells. -- George Herbert
Go forward and explore many great lands. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
For washing his hands, none sels his lands. -- George Herbert
My lands are where my dead lie buried. -- Korczak Ziolkowski
We travel with our thoughts to great lands. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Men of all lands and climes are brothers. -- Joseph Hertz
They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands -- Drake
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves. -- Wallace Stevens
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure. -- Bodhidharma
Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia. -- Martin Luther
Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life.. -- Shivam Singh
What comes from the heart lands on the heart creatively. -- Denny Dent
You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience. -- Naomi Watts
Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one. -- John F. Kennedy
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent. -- Ric Keller
How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress. -- Helen Keller
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. -- Richard M. Nixon
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands. -- John Hay
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses. -- Gale Norton
Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes. -- Andrea Gibson
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed... -- Richard M. Nixon
Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands. -- Ahmed Yassin
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. -- Jim Gibbons
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. -- John Dryden
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources. -- Barbara Boxer
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? -- Elif Safak
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources -- Barbara Boxer
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. -- James F. Byrnes
Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark? -- Keri Hulme
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. -- Elizabeth Streb
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. -- Christopher Paolini
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years. -- Frankie Boyle
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. -- Albert Einstein
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. -- Andrei Codrescu
Two hopeful hearts, two lands apart. Together there's no end to what our dream can start. -- Pocahontas
As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore. -- Christina Rossetti
Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. -- Richard Francis Burton
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target. -- Homer Burton Adkins
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. -- Edward Abbey
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. -- Frederick Stanley Maude
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Brahma and AiravataLong ago in lands of golden sandBrahma turned to Saraswatiand gently kissed her inked hand.... -- Muse
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. -- George W. Bush
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead. -- Robert Browning
Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands. -- William Shakespeare
People who are different are dangerous; they belong to another tribe; they want our lands and our women. -- Paulo Coelho
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. -- Marcel Proust
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration. -- Michael Pollan
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heartâ??s sacred lands? -- Aberjhani
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. -- Eric Hoffer
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands! -- I. L. Peretz
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. -- Chinua Achebe
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Andre Gide
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. -- William Shakespeare
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. -- Marshall McLuhan
Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever. -- Gaius Marius
There is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish state without the EVICTION of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. -- Ariel Sharon
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands. -- George William Norris
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. -- Walt Whitman
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. -- Walt Whitman
I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands. -- Estelle
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. -- Emily Dickinson
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! -- Daniel Boone
The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all... -- William Joyce
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is. -- Catherine Doherty
The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all -- William Joyce
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down,Whose bonnets touch the firmament,Whose sandals touch the town -- Emily Dickinson
Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower. -- Johnny Carson
The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world. -- Fouad Ajami
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. -- Jimmy Carter
Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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