Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Thor Heyerdahl
WorldSecurityLandMilitaryBeen
The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace' and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions.
Yasser Arafat
PeaceForwardLookResolutionsLand
The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.
Mick Cornett
LifePeopleCityBetterRunLand
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave Grohl
HomeGodBraveFreeAmericaLand
Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.
Tom Allen
PeopleColdHelpLongUniqueLand
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
Yunus Emre
LoveFriendMeYouLandFollow
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
Mitch Leigh
LandOldJokeBarrenLeigh
The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.
Cyril Ramaphosa
BlackWillLandWithoutCompensation
Trump's Twitter flood of late-night mendacity is an unhindered celebration of fragile manhood, a ceaseless summons to the millions for affirmation, a proclamation to vulnerable men across the land that endless preening and stroking is a normal and imitable way of life.
Timothy D. Snyder
LifeMenWayLandAffirmationFlood
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.
Wangari Maathai
WaterPeaceManagementStartLand
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.
Louis Bacon
PeopleStand UpStandLandCompany
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Charles Dudley Warner
CityLandTaxesRaisedThing
I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.
Rick Scott
LandLawsSupposedEnforce
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
Tariq Ramadan
HistoryDiversityRichCountryLand
One's native land! There should one live! There die!
Jules Verne
LiveDieLandShouldNative
I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.
Burt Shavitz
GoodNiceWillLandNeighborsNeed
The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
Nina Fedoroff
GrowBetterLandMoreCultivated
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
Tecumseh
VillageDoneLandLevelChiefsSell
I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.
Jason Blum
LoveLosingChanceWhyLandSee
The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.
Bill O'Reilly
GovernmentBabyAmericanWantLand
I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.
Jim Nabors
NowLandMagazineFarCoverThan
For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'
Richard Flanagan
GoodCountryGoAustraliaLandFair
The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
Sabine Baring-Gould
RiverPeopleCityDeepEndLand
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
Jose Mujica
LandApocalypseNorPromised
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