| "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 |
| "...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. |
| "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 |
| "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." »Les Brown |
| "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 |
| "What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." »Euripides |
| "This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." »Elmer Davis |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus." »Desiderius Erasmus |
| "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 |
| "With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "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 |
| "This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand." »Aristophanes |
| "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 |
| "The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor |
| "History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield." »Mario Van Peebles |
| "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." »Zora Neale Hurston |
| "If I come back as a horsefly, I think my favorite thing would be to land on someone's lip. Even if they smash you, ick, you're all over their lip" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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