887 Land Quotes for You to Enjoy

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities. Johan Rockstrom

Great Water Building Our Cities Diverting Environment Clearing Altered Undoubtedly Land

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway). John Battelle

You Facebook People Trouble Google Build Own Twitter Else Apps Someone Something Yahoo Domain LinkedIn Owned Sovereignty Going Owns Where Want Anyway Land Much Choice Your Apple

For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, five minutes later I'd have to do some amazing work, then - boom! - I'm out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage. John C. Reilly

Work Time You Courage Amazing Long Long Time Meet Everyone Later Boom Out Some Minutes Part Takes Supporting Like Know Forces Parts Five Again Land Then Special Special Forces Unit Playing

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived. John Henrik Clarke

Love Family Mother Father Own Rich White Once Willie Would Clarke Dreamed Folks John Area Writer Never Columbus Understood Georgia Owning Where Mays Poor Land Lived Ella

This is the essence of the American Dream - in the land of opportunity, if you have a good idea, create a solid plan, and work hard, you should be able to reinvent yourself and get ahead. John Hickenlooper

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. John James Audubon

Good Man Change Heart Dangerous Rugged Country Few Every Gaze Wilderness Top Indeed Dread Eye High Dreary Most Obtained Rock Beheld Experienced Chilled Either Land Harbor Sea Coast Whole Now Ever Extensive

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. John James Audubon

Needs Think Waters Must Would Hurricane Scarcely Laying Never Idea Reader Dry Terrific Content Witnessed Quench South Quite Form Grandeur Land Persons Sweep Who Waste Thirst

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. John M. McHugh

Service Challenges Communicate Key Postal Postal Service Faces Fact How Still Traditional Affairs Conduct American American Businesses Place Land Century Across Businesses Chairman Cog

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. John Moody

War Government Before Projected Civil Some Civil War Various Federal Federal Government Were Lines South Decade North Land Grants Railway Assisted

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. John Muir

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It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block. John Niven

Knowledge You Jokes Weary Listening Thought Tough Nights Draining Late Spent Bad Must Could Tougher Smiling Always Block His Comment Dictator Being Grin Land Chopping

When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world. John Paul Jones

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. John Ruskin

Occupation Labor Either Lending Taxation Land Fortunes Large Founded

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights. John Trudell

Positive Rights Fight Resources Positive Things Tribes Constant Some About Terms Protecting Been Happened Land Vigilant Things

The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new. John Yarmuth

People Thought Desperately Honey Back Wilderness Out Willing Obama Seeking Lead He Mortal New Moses Proved Were American Listen Maybe Anyone After Barack Barack Obama Them Land American People Milk

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. Jon Ronson

You Patience Trouble Understanding Empathy Calling Context Midst Land Really

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land. Jose Mujica

Promised Promised Land Nor Land Apocalypse

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? Jose Saramago

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries. Joseph Hume

Great You Will Value Long Corn Other Other Countries Great Britain Those Destroy Laws Take Countries Render Employment Wages Which Little Land Measure Away Britain

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air. Joseph Jacobs

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there. Josh Hawley

Government Farm Live Ranch Tell Someday Federal Federal Government Because Does Endangered Endangered Species Authority Land Might Farmers Species

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