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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. (Quote by - Theodor Herzl)

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

If a man owns land, the land owns him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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. (Quote by - Les Brown)

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. (Quote by - Leonard Cohen)

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. (Quote by - Hernando Cortes)

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land? (Quote by - Ken Kesey)

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. (Quote by - Tom Allen)

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. (Quote by - Ibrahim Babangida)

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. (Quote by - Theodor Herzl)

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. (Quote by - Lucretius)

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate. (Quote by - Steve Irwin)

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. (Quote by - David Lee Roth)

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. (Quote by - Alfred Marshall)

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been. (Quote by - Margaret Mahy)

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

America does not fight for land, glory or riches. (Quote by - Virginia Foxx)

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. (Quote by - Aldo Leopold)

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