Land Quotes

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.

~ Neil Gaiman

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

~ Anonymous

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.

~ John Steinbeck

He said he owned the land,He said he owned the sea,Through his sweet lies and manipulation,He was trying to own me

~ Charmaine J Forde

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

God indeed could show up, but we must first show good stewardship by taking good care of our land.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land... it surprised me. I’d been gone long enough to forget and be forgotten. I had a home in a land that might as well be in another galaxy to the people sleeping on the other side of the wall I leaned against. I thought I had forgotten about this land. But I hadn’t. And, under the bony glow of a halfmoon, I sensed Afghanistanhumming under my feet. Maybe Afghanistan hadn’t forgotten me either. I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San FranciscoChronicle. Somewhere over those mountains in the west slept the city where my harelipped brother and I had run kites. Somewhere over there, the blindfolded man from my dream had died a needless death. Once, over those mountains, I had made a choice. And now, a quarter of a century later, that choice had landed me right back on this soil.

~ Khaled Hosseini

God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love and His presence into the land where we are called

~ Sunday Adelaja

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.

~ Haileigh Horton

In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!

~ Jean Webster

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

~ Norman Lamm

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.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Land really is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

~ Georges Duhamel

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

~ George Richards Minot

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

~ Jack Kerouac

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

~ Josiah Strong

The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.

~ David Grann

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

~ Jacques Cartier

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

~ Robert Mugabe

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

~ Winston Churchill

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

~ Loretta Lynn

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

~ Audrey Hepburn

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

~ Stephen Gardiner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

~ William Graham Sumner

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

~ Henry Lawson

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

~ Laurence J. Peter

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

~ Anwar Sadat

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

~ Theodor Herzl

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

~ Carole Bouquet

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

~ Eliza Cook

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

~ Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers