Quotes of: Knots-landing Keyword

So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the chur...

American Gods

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their liv...

For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

The best of the New Critics were masters of close readings. Cleanth Brooks, for example, in 1937 wrote a detailed commentary on The Waste Land which is still a model of critical helpfulness. The fact that certain basic insights in the past generation...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It i...

The Lands Beyond the Moon

Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Japanese

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.

Tom Selleck

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Malcolm X

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harriet Tubman

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it.

Neil Abercrombie

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Wilfrid Laurier

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

Gordon Sinclair

Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died from landing instantaneously.

Haileigh Horton

Malcolm X: We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!

Malcolm X

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

Clockwork Princess

'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.'

The Devil's Fire

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

The Dog Stars

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The Irrational Knot

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?

Knots and Crosses

The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

Someone I Used to Know