Quotes of: Native-land Keyword

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Ezra Cornell

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

Edward Hoagland

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

Lusia Strus

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Ambrose Bierce

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

A platform without the Holy Spirit is like land without a spring. If we gain our Promise Land without Living Water, it will become desolate.

Alisa Hope Wagner

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Washington Irving

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

William Graham Sumner

It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland swee...

The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts

…There’s forty-two thousand jobs, near ten thousand of ’em got by people like us. Everyone’s gotta eat. Industry feeds ’em. They figure Little Bear here’s gonna clean it up." He squeezed his baby, a dimpled plump girl with tufts of jet-bl...

Flight of the Griffons

When you buy beef, you buy bones; when you buy land, you buy rocks.

Jamaican

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

The Return of the Native

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Native Son

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.

Stephen Kinzer

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Kenneth L. Pike

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

Ken Starr

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

Lemn Sissay

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Marcus Aurelius

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

Matt McGorry