You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.'
Women are just like cats -- they always land on their feet.
As if it weren't bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.
All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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.
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
