I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
I feel it's my responsibility to be able to take care of my family by living off the land. That's the ultimate goal for a man.
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
Everything about 'Adventure Time' is the purest form of kid's play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn't pretend to be real. That was the great thing about 'Pee Wee's Playhouse'; it ex...
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
