What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
LifeManPeopleStandDetailsLand
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
ViewLiteratureDistanceBecomeLand
America's a land of second opportunities.
Mitch McConnell
OpportunitiesAmericaLandSecond
You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, 'Okay, cool. What's next?' You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, 'Yeah!'
Charlie Cox
MomentFightPeopleCoolYouLand
I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to sing.
Tim Cope
CharacterI AmLandWildSingOften
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
Viggo Mortensen
ThinkArtistCountryLandAskJust
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
Louis Zamperini
SeaLearnSurvivalLandAirSoldier
Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
Charles E. Wilson
FutureYouWealthDevelopmentLand
Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won't allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the public and sidelined governments decry and block the perceived cosmic land grab. Yet the private folks aren't waiting.
Rick Tumlinson
WaitingGloryWillLandBreakGrab
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
Victor LaValle
WorldBuildingEarthLandOverPlot
I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.
Joy Harjo
SpiritualPeopleThinkCareLand
Land is everything.
Burt Shavitz
LandEverything
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.
Nina Easton
StopEngineersWillLandOverwhelmed
If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
DemocracyYouFindNowGreyLand
Lots of business owners spend their lives trying to land the whale - the single, massive, brand-name account that will fatten the top line and bestow instant credibility. But big customers make me nervous.
Jason Fried
BusinessMeTryingNervousLandTop
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
Bill Nye
SpaceWorldLoseLandTryDifficult
Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.
Joe Kennedy III
StrengthFutureHistoryPeopleLand
At home I drive an old Land Rover.
Richard Hammond
HomeDriveLandOldRover
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
Raekwon
OpportunityThinkYouCareerLand
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
LifeSeaExperienceUniqueLandOut
Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.
Alex Tabarrok
GrowthStrongYouLandDifficult
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
Jesse Ventura
HomeFreedomPeopleBraveFreeLand
I love creating hideaways. My idea is to go to the most beautiful, unspoilt places, buy the land, and make sure it is never damaged. I've always admired John D. Rockefeller, who bought up tracts of land to ensure they were left wild in perpetuity.
Richard Branson
LoveBeautifulCreatingGoLandUp
NXT is a land of opportunity.
Paige
OpportunityLand
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