Lands Quotes

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This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It`s standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I`m like in one of my own pictures.

- Danny DeVito

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

- Cat Stevens

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments (as a nation) have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

- George W. Bush

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

- Heinrich Himmler

And today the Negro people watch Africa and Asia and closely follow the liberation struggles of the rising peoples in these lands.

- Paul Robeson

I`m excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public`s help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

- Robert Towne

As hitters, we definitely know when we hit a ball well. But then you see where it lands, and you say `Whoa.` That definitely felt good.

- Carlos Pena

(On his advice to aspiring actors) Be good to you`re fellow players: We are all in this together. Whether you are working, or in-between jobs, you need all the help you can get. I just read an interview with a very famous director who decided to slum a bit and try the other end of the camera. He reported that this acting thing is a stroll in the park and he was mystified as to what the big deal is. I`ve got a hint for him: What that little experiment missed is the part where you go 0 for 22 in auditions, spend 11 months wondering where the next paycheck is coming from, your mother suddenly has health problems that tap half of your cash reserves, your summer love from Shakespeare Under The Stars lands a network series, and you mentor (and probably the best actor you have ever seen) gives it up because he can`t get cast and has to feed the family. Factor that stuff in and then come tell me how easy it is. Try to remember that your contemporaries now will be the same 30 years from now. You need them. Treat them like family.

- Chelcie Ross

Few, if any, landowners in Montana are asked to give up property rights in exchange for hypothetical `credit` in an unrelated public discussion about the use of public lands. Montana landowners are not known for relinquishing valid existing property rights.

- David Blair

My brother was an advisor to Michael Manley and they wanted to do a project in McIntyre Lands. It was about 1972. I volunteered to design a scheme and the next thing I knew the PNP won (the general election).

- Evan Williams (Dancer)

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

- Stephen Wright

We`re seeing larger growths on public lands because there are more people who are growing it diligently,

- Jose Martinez

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

- Ivo Andric

When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.

- Dennis Banks

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

- Barbara Boxer

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

- Henry Cabot Lodge

Eastern Europe has been really trendy. Prague is the best-preserved city in the region ... and the best beer in Europe lands on your table there for 50 cents.

- Rick Steves

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

- Walt Whitman

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

- James Monroe

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

- James Monroe

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

- Corazon Aquino

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

- Sitting Bull

One doesn`t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

- Aad Jacobs

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America`s lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

- Al Mau

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

- Al Siebert

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

- Alaida Lares

I agree that liberty at home depends on liberty in other lands, and that the force of human freedom is advancing throughout the world.

- Alan Lloyd

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

- Alan Rupe

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

- Alan Skrainka

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

- Alex Grobler

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

- Alex Walker

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country`s birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

- Alissa Czisny

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

- Allan Cribbins

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

- Alle Fister

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

- Alvina Tan

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.

- Ami Brophy

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

- Amy Sowash

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

- Anabella Hedman

From an ecological standpoint, the BLM feels strongly that what the horses need is more summer range, ... If a decision is made that they can no longer have access to Forest Service lands, we will have to cut the herd.

- Anita Banach

We`re placing them into good homes where they`ll be loved and taken care of and used as a useful animal or just pets. The alternative is we either leave them on the range and they damage the public lands because they`re overpopulated, or we put them into large-scale holding operations where they don`t get used; they don`t get touched; they just sit there.

- Anna de Noailles

There`s two huge parts of our job, ... The first: protect old-growth forest, which is about 9 percent of what it was. The other is to restore logged-over lands. But you also must work on lots of small parts, like how residents in this drainage use water, what happens along roads.

- Anthony Bliss

(Gorillaz are planning a revolutionary world tour in which the virtual band will appear on stage as 3D holograms. The animations will also appear alongside the real-life guests on their 3m-selling Demon Days album, which include Shaun Ryder and Roots Manuva.) Holograms and humans on the same stage is where it gets spooky, ... a cross between a live performance and a Disney theme park, where a virtual Spiderman lands on your car.

- Anthony Burke

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they`ll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

- Anthony Pico

(Some of the lands held by Muslims were wealthy. Tariq Ali, the author of) The Book of Saladin, ... Nothing is ever motivated purely by religion or ideology. They wanted the money. It was as simple as that.

- Aram Aharonian

I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me, The memory of your name

- Ashleigh Cole

Historically, propaganda has always merged with recruitment because people must first be conditioned to become soldiers and fight strangers in distant lands. It`s not a natural condition but must be manipulated to get people to join unpopular realities.

- Audrey Shiomi

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

- Francis Bacon, Sr.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

- Mahatma Gandhi