land quotes

• If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. (Henry James) [life/america/land]
• 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 Auden) [land/men/change/fortune]
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. (Francis Bacon) [think/land]
• The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. (James Baldwin) [point/land]
• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. (Bertolt Brecht) [land]
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. () [willpower/land]
• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. () [life/land/look]
• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. (Italo Calvino) [land/language/result]
• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. (Marcus Cicero) [land/mankind]
• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. (Eldridge Cleaver) [paper/lord/land]
• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. (Joseph Conrad) [life/land/faith/life]
• The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time! (Charles Dickens) [day/land/ignorance/english]
• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. (Thomas Eliot) [land/memory/desire/roots]
• The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. (Havelock Ellis) [land]
• For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [land/life]
• The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [generosity/land]
• If a man owns land, the land owns him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [land/land]
• Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. (Janet Frame) [novel/land/imagination]
• The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people. (Robert Frost) [land/land/land/more]
• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay. (Oliver Goldsmith) [land/wealth/men]
• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage. (Martha Graham) [america/philosophy/land/stage]
• No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [shadow/land]
• The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [vote/land]
• If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. (Henry James) [life/america/land]
• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. (Samuel Johnson) [men/land]
• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (John Keats) [land/weakness/death]
• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller) [land/human/spirit]
• A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. (Martin Luther) [servant/bird/land]
• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. (Herman Melville) [america/excellence/land]
• Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, nave, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles. (Henry Miller) [eyes/product/land]
• Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. (John Ruskin) [land]

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