L Quotes
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“Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.”
“Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.”
Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles
“Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.”
“Landback is the mother of all movements, it contains the plight of all First Humans.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Landed interets also successfully staged a fightback around this time by reviving the language of stewardship, and by claiming to be the voice of rural Britain. Older organisations like the NFU and CLA were joined by new lobby groups such as the Moorland Association and Countryside Alliance. These lobbyists still claim to speak for the countryside, despite most of them representing only tiny numbers of people with huge power and wealth: the 27,000 members of the CLA who own around a third of the land of England and Wales; the 150 or so grouse moor estates that that own at least half a million acres of the English uplands Even the 45,000 members of the NFU and the 100,000 who belong to the Countryside Alliance comprise but a small fraction of the rural population. By shouting loudly, they have occluded the fact that farming, forestry and fishing make up just 7 percent of employment even in rural areas of England. Across the UK as a whole, agriculture generates just 0.5 per cent of GDP and employs only 1.5 per cent of the workforce, yet takes up 71 per cent of the land. Land use decisions remain disproportionately dominated, therefore, by a small number of people.”
Source: The Lie of the Land
“Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”
Source: The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Together with the Journal of the Federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution
“Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.”
“Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.”
“Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.”
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising”
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.”
“Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Source: Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844
“Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.”
“Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn’t even know her anymore. The truth is, she’ll never be the girl she was seven months ago. Too much has happened. Too much has changed.
“Why’d you do that?” Summer cries.
“To save you,” he says.
But there’s nothing left to save.”
Source: Burning Falls
“Landon Loucas Maxfield was asleep on his sofa. With me.”
“Landon paced back and forth, his eyes a little wild.
‘’Well, he took it worse than I did,’’ Curran said.
‘’I don’t see what the big deal is.‘’
‘’It’s a sword made out of your grandmothers bones, Kate.’’
I shrugged
Landon stared at me through the windshield, turned around, paced back and forth, and stared at me again”
Source: Magic Breaks
“Landon was so surprised, he cried out in a high-pitched gulp, causing the heads of everyone nearby to turn to look at him, including the two murderers.
“What was that?” Ryan asked him, deeply concerned at the sound he’d just made.
“Th—Th—they murdered him.” Landon stuttered.
“Murdered who? You’re really acting weird, you know that?”
Source: Holy Bliss
“Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.”
“Landowners were indeed guilty of an astonishingly myopic cupidity, as exposed by the Reverend John Macdonald of Alvie in 1835. During the war, he pointed out, local rents had 'more than tripled', but 'the price of cattle and sheep was so high, that the tenants were enabled the bear these heavy burdens'. Twenty years on, however, 'it is entirely out of their power to pay the rents then imposed upon them. Since the peace, the price of cattle has been so much reduced, that sometimes three can scarcely be sold at the price formerly received for one; while the rent continue still the same.' Arrears, he predicted, would soar and tenants go bankrupt until landowners eventually fell victim to their own policies.”
Source: 'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800 - 1863
“Landry had coffee running through her veins.”
Source: Inheriting Murder
“Landry looked crestfallen. "Too bad. Having a beautiful woman whisper sweet nothings in my ear with a French accent would have been intriguing."
Okay, what was a woman supposed to do after a line like that? Everly couldn't resist leaning closer and giving him what she hoped was a sexy, come-hither look.
"I think I may be able to help you with those sweet little nothings," she said in her best French accent.”
Source: To Love a Wolf
“Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.”
“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.”
“Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”
Source: City as Landscape
“Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.”
“Landscape is history made visible.”
“Landscape is loving.”
“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.”
“Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.”
Source: The art-idea
“Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.”
“Landscape Mathematicians, Matemáticos Paisajistas, are mathematical thinkers, designers, philosophers, scientists, and inventors, and can easily recognize and understand the beauty and logic of this world of numbers.
Nature illustrates the language of mathematics; and Landscape Mathematicians translate this beauty and logic. We are the common denominators in all fields.
Mathematics is our first language! By translating the mathematical systems we see in colors, shapes, and numbers, we reveal the logic of this beautiful world.
Landscape Mathematicians see a world of numerical solutions. We see a world of Landscape Mathematics!”
Source: Landscape Mathematics, Design with Numbers
“Landscape Mathematics = Landscape Architecture + Mathematics + Engineering™. Complex mathematical systems exist in nature. We must mimic these systems, and create original ones to solve environmental and educational issues worldwide.”
“Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.”
Source: Criticisms on Art
“Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.”
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.”
Source: Basic Photo: Natural-light photography
“Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and metaphor can be dubious. But taken together, as in the best work of people like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, the three kinds of information strengthen each other and reinforce what we all work to keep intact - the affection for life.”
Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values
“Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.”
Source: City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
“Landscape shapes culture”
Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland
“Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.”
“landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.”
Source: Spillville: A Collaboration
“Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature.”
“Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal”
“Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.”
“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
“Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.”
“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.”
“Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.”
Source: Broken Homes