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"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be." »Saint Jerome
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"Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us." »Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh." »Robert Anson Heinlein
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"To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this." »Henry David Thoreau
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"A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race." »Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934
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"If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate." »Diogenes the Cynic (412 to 323 B.C.)
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"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong
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"...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark." »Michael Shermer
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"Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free" »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." »Francis Bacon
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"Land and Freedom!" »Emiliano Zapata
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"Where would this country be without this great land of ours?" »Ronald Reagan
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"Truth is a pathless land." »Krishnamurti
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"I'd love to travel to the Holy Land." »Loretta Lynn
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"What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else." »Joseph Campbell
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"Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . ." »Ernest Hemingway
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"We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children." »American Indian Proverb
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"On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." »Les Brown
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"...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea." »Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
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"We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." »Haida Indian saying
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." »Les Brown
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"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." »Euripides
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness." »Havelock Ellis
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