Quotes of: Native-land Keyword

Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.

Irish

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Fahrenheit 451

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

Into the Land of the Unicorns

For this I weep all my days and throughout my lifetime grieve that I swam from my own lands and came from familiar lands     towards these strange doors     to these foreign gates.

The Kalevala

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.

Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning

In the past people only added to their minds. Now people can become complete and live in heaven if they subtract what is in their minds.

Stop Living In This Land, Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness, Live There Forever

That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this." He turns out the light. BLACKOUT

No Man's Land: Pinter: Plays

This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from the Sottish settlers, but resembling no known Scottish accent. It's simply Kiwi English with added r's.

A Land of Two Halves

Few living do." "Then, have I...I mean, am I-" "Oh, no, child! You are still very much alive! Though I may say, not as Alive as you might be if you had died.

The Lands Beyond the Moon

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns...

And the Land Lay Still

Right ain't changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker

Tools to Cultivate the Promised Land: Working Wisdom from My Grandparents' Garden

For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.

Only The Good Times

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

The Waste Land and Other Poems

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze free...

Philipp Meyer

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

Sebastiao Salgado

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendan...

Theodore Roosevelt