Quotes of: Native-land Keyword

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

Charles S. Dutton

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Christine Lahti

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

G. M. Trevelyan

You don't have to walk on water, it's how you walk on land.

Jason Crabb

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Oscar Robertson

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Yoko Ono

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Anwar Sadat

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Robert Browning

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.

Charles Duke

Today is a new day for the land.

Antonis Samaras

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Robert Mugabe

Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.

Saru Singhal

The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Uzo Aduba

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

Virginia Foxx

Love & Passion for Motherland is Natural Serving with Respect to Home Land is Necessary

Venkat Gandhi

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the fir...

The History of the Peloponnesian War

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, no...

Native Son

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its or...

The Sound of Mountain Water

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not l...

Natasha Trethewey

There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list n...

Mary Roach

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spa...

F. Sionil Jose