Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
James Hogg
DogWorthLandOpenShepherdWhole
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
NatureHeartMemoryLivingLand
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
Arlo Guthrie
BornIslandLandYesHolyHoly Land
For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
Manuel Moroun
SupportCityMeHonorDetroitLand
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
John Philip Sousa
GoodMusicTimeTalentBelieveLand
If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.
Grover Norquist
PeopleCareTake CareYouLookLand
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Edmund White
YouParisLandLeaveLike
Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.
Allan Sherman
RainbowWayLandNeverTallOver
The House of Commons has the undoubted rights to expel members for misconduct. This is an absolute authority which cannot be challenged in any court, as it derives from the twin concept of the High Court of Parliament being the most senior court in the land and of each House's right to regulate its own affairs.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
HouseAuthorityLandRightHighOwn
Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
GoodGodMovingGivingLateLand
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
Herbert Croly
FreeProsperityLandMoreSatisfied
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. Wilson
LifeAloneRestHumanityLandOut
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Alice Stone Blackwell
WomanFeelingLandSheLittleHer
People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
Keanu Reeves
PeopleMeSayingThoughtGayLand
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
St. Jerome
LiveGodMenManPresentLand
The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer.
Henry Charles Carey
LooksLandSystemExhaustionNatural
The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.
Vinod Khosla
WinterLossCountryGrowingLand
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill
GreatLandInspirationContactOut
Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.
Gene Luen Yang
WarBackLandMilitaryReasonOwn
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
Stewart Udall
CultureReligionSocietyLandModern
I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.
Gillian Flynn
BeautifulButterflyIdeasKindLand
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
William H. Wharton
NaturePerseveranceConfidentLand
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
StarsNewSpiritHuman SpiritLand
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
Smedley Butler
WarYouthLandBearDecideArms
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