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  • German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

  • Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.

    Lying   Book   Men  
    "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.
  • Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

    Sea   Land   Feet  
    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310
  • We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

    Brother   Moving   Night  
    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
  • I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

    War   Air   Sea  
  • Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

    Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.
  • Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.

    Princess   Land   Mirrors  
    Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012
  • All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

    Lonely   Fall   Dark  
    William Nicholson (2002). “Firesong”, Egmont Books (UK)
  • We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  • The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

  • The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

    Art   Hard Work   Reality  
  • But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

    Keys   Land   Challenges  
  • An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

    Air   Land   Sky  
    Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
  • Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.

    Land   Recluse   Walks  
  • In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.

    The New York Times, July 17, 1983.
  • I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

    Power   Land   Magic  
    George B. McClellan (1998). “McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union”, p.82, Digital Scanning Inc
  • I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

    Life   Land   Rivers  
  • It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

    Country   Land   Earth  
  • Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

    Jesus   Book   Teaching  
  • America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

    Land   America   Levels  
  • My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

    Animal   Land   Dear Lord  
  • Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

    Running   Order   Land  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

    Hope   Work   Land  
  • James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

    Men   Land   Example  
    "Was the 20th Century a Mistake?". Interview with Paul Holdengräber, www.nypl.org. February 16, 2007.
  • The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

    Tunnels   Land   Relax  
  • You can't use an old map to see a new land.

    Land   Use   Maps  
  • It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

    Father   Home   Land  
    Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.105, Open Road Media
  • To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

    Wise   Men   Land  
    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.
  • A land of levity is a land of guilt.

    Land   Guilt   Levity  
    Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.155
  • For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

    Israel   Years   Land  
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