| "Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky." »Charles Kingsley |
| "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 |
| "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles |
| "...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. |
| "A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| "Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." »Bertrand Russell |
| "My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud." »William Blake |
| "With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius |
| "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 |
| "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." »Francis Bacon |
| "We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children." »American Indian Proverb |
| "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." »Clarence Darrow |
| "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 |
| "Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . ." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." »Les Brown |
| "This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." »Elmer Davis |
| "What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." »Euripides |
| "Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married!.." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs." »William Faulkner |
| "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." »Michael McClary |
| "America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself." »Georg W. Hegel |
| "We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar." »Sigmund Freud |
| "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus." »Desiderius Erasmus |
| "I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night! (Noli Me Tangere)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." »Helen Keller |
| "Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale." »William Shakespeare |
| "There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next." »Johathan Edwards |
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