T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“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.”
Source: Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller
“The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.”
“The land of Maren, my island,
calls to me in my fretful sleep.
Like dancing ribbons of light,
it winds its memories around
my starved, yearning torso,
tearing at my aching heart.
“I am twirling now,
unravelling a ribbon memory
of light, warm sand
and cresting waves around me.
“To feel at breath with my
unique, native land
and to retrace my footprints
across its terrains would be ...
heavenly.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.”
“The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.”
Source: Lyrics:1962-2012
“The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.”
“The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.”
“The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.”
“The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.”
Source: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be”
“The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.”
“The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave.”
“The land of the living, sister,
Is neither here nor there.
We enter it and we leave it.
The dead in the land of the dead
Are the ones you'll be with longest.”
Source: The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
“The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.”
“The land on which my home sits was originally woodland but was converted to pasture in the early 1700s by the Guidott family. The meadows provided grazing for the cattle that supplied much of the city's milk and cream. The farmhouse was known as Cream Hall and it is here that city dwellers would come to take tea-- the farm was renowned for its cheesecakes-- and in 1740 a Cake and Ale House opened 'offering cakes dipped in frothing cream, custards and syllabubs.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”
“The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.”
“The land remembers. Even if we forget, the soil stores every cut, every kindness.”
“The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.”
“The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.”
“The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.”
“The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?”
Source: Stolen
“The land was enormous, the ambitions were grand, and the control had to be just as big.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”
“The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The land was torn apart in a legal dispute. Soon it was so devastated, nothing could live here- not plant or animal. Only lawyers. But eventually the place fell into lawlessness, and lawyers can't exist in an area of lawlessness, so they went feral. Some say they still roam the land. You'll suddenly hear someone yell, 'Objection!' and then you'll be torn apart like an improperly witnessed contract.”
“The land we grow up on patterns us, we become a part of the energetic mosaic of the living experience that draws its life from the land and draws its breath from the trees.”
Source: The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World
“The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“The land wherein the need to be alone and the need to be around people is dissolved together is a complete anarchy.”
“The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.”
“The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.”
“The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.”
“The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day.
[Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]”
Source: Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World
“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything”
“The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.”
“The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.”
Source: Stage-coach and Tavern Days
“The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.”
Source: The poetical works of Robert Burns
“The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.”
Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
“The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.”
“The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.”
“The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.”
“The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.”
“The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it's no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed.”
“The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.”
Source: Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
“The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.”
“The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before… It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.”
“The landscape here was strange. It was some type of forest, with giant vines that grew into spirals, round and round, growing up fifty metres toward the sky. They were massive. Some were fifteen metres across, narrowing as they rose.”
Source: Stig's Flight of Encounters