Land Quotes & Sayings
These land quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure. - Wystan Hugh Auden
A foot of land that was not stolen. There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and groveling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core. - Mark Twain
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [La., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui] - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honour in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. - Epicurus
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. - Max Forrester Eastman
The land was ours before we were the land's. - Robert Frost
Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to! - Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher