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“In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.”

Ifs Use Would Be Values Can Do Land Property California Southern Agriculture Coast Southern California

Author:Bill Vaughan

“After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.”

Way Firsts Said Enemy Fire Land Available British Planes Classic Denied Grandfather Permission They Said Coast My Grandfather

Author:Tom Hooper

“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.”

Ifs Earth Film Certain Animal Land Planets Hollywood Welcome Coast Cages Never Quit Visiting Planet Earth Zoos

Author:Elinor Glyn

“Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.”

Sometimes Land West California Coast Iowa West Coast Promised Land Lancaster

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”

Way Long Ends Light Young Nature Sun Fire Five Land Months Mountain Spring Red Mark Blue Plant California Fallen Brown Gray Yellow Stem Coast Fog June Oaks Robes Blooming Haze Mustard

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Americans are desperately, here on the West Coast, buying up and hoarding iodine pills... Isn't it great that in a land that is divided between conservative morons and liberal pussies, somehow we have managed to find a way to pull together and behave like moronic pussies?”

Way Together Land West Conservative Behave Buying Divided Coast Pills Moron Pussy Hoarding West Coast Iodine

Author:Bill Maher

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.”

Men Firsts Made Water Fate Violence Journey Land Arms Shore Savages Coast Fugitive Battered Land And Water

Book:The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

Source: The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

“Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.”

Mind Has Beens Home Left Land Europe Staying Coast Moses Great Minds Compulsory Promised Land Bohemia

Author:Jan Morris

“Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.”

Years States Lasts Lost Loses Land Size Miles Thanks Islands Last Year Coast Hurricanes Louisiana Katrina Hurricane Katrina Rhode Island

Author:Bobby Jindal