Quotes of: Native-land Keyword

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

James Russell Lowell

Carl Denham: [observing the natives dancing] Holy mackerel! What a show!

King Kong

Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

Howard Rheingold

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Stephen Ambrose

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!

Desperate Lands: The War on Terror Through the Eyes of a Special Forces Soldier

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

The Land of the Blue Flower

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

The Land of Green Plums

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

And the Land Lay Still

There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.

Pax in the Land of Women

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land Path

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The Waste Land

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

Wall and Piece

I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Steve Earle

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

Mathias Rust

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

Bill Gates

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

Jack Bowman

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

Don Young