Quotes of: Promised-land Keyword

Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the discrediting of objectivity is especially relevant to understanding the poem, because the problem of knowledge...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.

Kenyan

In the realm of Ahura, there are two lands, one of light and one of dark. The land of light is where the mountain lay, and near its top is where the Zoroastrians dwell. They are the people of the land, and the chosen Twelve are their most powerful le...

Ruby

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary...

Pablo Neruda

She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land.

Hot Blooded

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Broken for You

Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.

American Gods

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

I Speak of Ghana

Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

Into the Land of the Unicorns

In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land," and point, and “This is sky," and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.

Mr. Fox

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

The Marvelous Land of Oz

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

The Land of Journeys' Ending

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

The Land of Green Ginger

Your mind is the most powerful wonder. It can be your greatest enemy or your closest ally. There are no limits to what you can achieve if only you believe.

The Land of Shadows

It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows…even if that one is you.

The Land of Shadows

An ‘eye for an eye’ shall leave you all blind. It’s sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring.

The Land of Shadows

One foot in Hell, one in Heaven, but there will always be a devil. Be he your enemy. Be he your friend. Be the devil your own soul for fear of the world.

The Land of Shadows

Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.

The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions

I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.

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

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

Lincoln Chafee