But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the chur...
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their liv...
The best of the New Critics were masters of close readings. Cleanth Brooks, for example, in 1937 wrote a detailed commentary on The Waste Land which is still a model of critical helpfulness. The fact that certain basic insights in the past generation...
Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It i...
Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it.
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died from landing instantaneously.
Malcolm X: We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!
