1.
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe
2.
Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature.
Ibn Taymiyyah
3.
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.
Sojourner Truth
4.
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
Alexander the Great
5.
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
Robert E. Lee
A nation without recollections is a population without autonomy.
6.
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.
Thabo Mbeki
7.
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
Al-Shafi‘i
'Astonishing! You look to be led, yet you wander away from its trail, clearly a vessel cannot voyage on terra firma.'
8.
If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
Hammurabi
9.
First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land
Chief Dan George
'At first, they had the scriptures while we possessed the territory, now they possess the terrain while we have the sacred texts.'
10.
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all
was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in
de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.
Harriet Tubman
11.
We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.
Robert Mugabe
We will show no leniency towards Caucasians regarding the property, they shall not possess our earth.
12.
All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.
Pope Urban II
'All those who pass away, by land or sea or in clashes against pagans, shall receive immediate absolution of sins. This I bestow upon them through the authority bestowed upon me by God.'
13.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
On some grand and triumphant day the common people of the nation will finally achieve their aspirations, and the White House will be decorated by a complete imbecile.
14.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Kalpana Chawla
When you gaze at the stars and cosmos, you feel that your origin is not limited to one particular region, but rather from the entire solar system.
15.
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman
I had breached the threshold of which I had so long been fantasizing. I was liberated; yet there was nobody to greet me to the realm of liberty, I was a foreigner in an unknown territory.
16.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
To be an impoverished individual is arduous, but to be a marginalized group in a nation of wealth is the utmost degree of difficulty.
17.
Two hopeful hearts, two lands apart. Together there's no end to what our dream can start.
Pocahontas
'Two enthusiastic souls, two nations distant. Together the possibilities of our ambition are boundless.'
18.
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
Robert Charles Wilson
We are as fleeting as raindrops. We all descend, and we all find a place to land.
19.
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.
Chinua Achebe
20.
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
Frantz Fanon
Eradicate vestiges of imperial influence that must be discerned and extricated not only from our environment, but also our consciousness.
21.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
Robert Mugabe
We will no longer negotiate for the land, but rather seize it without discussion.
22.
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."
John Muir
23.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".
Christopher Columbus
24.
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Shimon Peres
25.
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.
Saddam Hussein
'Palestine is Arab and must be delivered to its rightful owners from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who immigrated to the land of Palestine ought to depart.'
26.
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
George Washington
I had always wished that this terrain could become a secure and pleasing refuge for the morally upright and oppressed people of the world, regardless of their nationality.
27.
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
Cecil Rhodes
28.
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
Maria Montessori
The ground is the birthplace of our heritage. It is imperative to instruct youths to appreciate and live in peaceful coexistence with Nature.
29.
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
Walt Whitman
30.
State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.
James Connolly
31.
We must each always think first of Malaysia, of the national need and least of ourselves …Everyone must try to help and see that the people are one-minded, with loyalty and one aim, to make Malaysia – the land we love – a happy abode for all of us. If we all do this then we can guarantee liberty, security, prosperity and happiness for the future.
Tunku Abdul Rahman
32.
Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.
Oswald Mosley
33.
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando
34.
God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.
Jomo Kenyatta
35.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert Kennedy
36.
The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.
Chief Joseph
37.
The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.
Emiliano Zapata
The territory is owned by those who toil upon it.
38.
My lands are where my dead lie buried.
Crazy Horse
My ancestors' remains lie interred on my territory.
39.
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
Francisco Franco
The entire motive behind the attacks on Spain can be summed up in two terms: Freemasonry and Communism... we must eradicate these two malevolent influences from our soil.
40.
A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.
Julius Evola
41.
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.
Frederick Douglass
42.
Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.
Wangari Maathai
43.
Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.
Yasmin Mogahed
Keep your heart a fortress; allow only the most worthy within its walls.
44.
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.
Jimmy Buffett
Further along the path of life, I realized salt water could soothe the mental wounds one obtains on dry land.
45.
Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.
Ho Chi Minh
'Our peaks will remain, our streams will persist, our citizens will endure, The foreign conquerors vanquished, we shall reconstruct our terrain tenfold more magnificent.'
46.
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
Sitting Bull
They are asking us to yield yet another portion of our ancestral territory. This is not an isolated event, nor will it be the final one.
47.
Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.
Eckhart Tolle
48.
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.
Geronimo
49.
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
Albert Einstein
Celebrate with your kin in the verdant realm of existence.
50.
You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.
Nhat Hanh