Quotes of: Native-land Keyword

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

Hassan Nasrallah

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

Evel Knievel

Women dream a lot and man is the prince of that dream land.

Debasish Mridha

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

Chiki: Because I have a gun and you don't.

No Man's Land

[repeated line] Fix-It Felix: Oh my LAND...

Wreck-It Ralph

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Helen Hunt Jackson

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Roy Bean

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

George Richards Minot

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

Anton Yelchin

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Henry Cabot Lodge

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.

Mitchell Joachim

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

Darren Criss

There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

David Novak

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer f...

A Conspiracy of Paper

The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship. And stewardshi...

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy w...

Beijing Coma

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to all...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out of a pot holder. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where ...

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

Being a “Christian” – a word used only three times in the New Testament – is not Jesus’ goal for his people. But the making of a community of revolutionary followers or “disciples” – a word used nearly three hundred times in the New T...

The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire