“When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.” LooksChristSpaceBloodLandDyingRedRiversCrossesSightFinalsBoatHeightSwingsWetNailsSailingGreyPalmsWeepingFoulGrimTossBerriesShiverFloodingHangmanDank Author:Alexander Blok
“Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution.” SpiritualPoliticalEffortLandSolutionsGuiltFinalsReachingOwnersAmerican HistoryReconciliationVacuumsAccusationAmerican Indian Book:God Is Red: A Native View of Religion Source: God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” YearsTwoHomeSpiritualNightLostCausesWhiteWalksLandAdventureRevolutionReturnCivilizationBattleTenUltimateTrainWestFinalsAestheticDay And NightExtremistAtlantaHitchhikingRamblingUltimate FreedomGreatest Adventure Author:Christopher McCandless
“When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.” PeopleLawLandCourtFinalsSupremeSupreme Court Author:Rick Santorum
“With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.” HelpingGovernmentChristianValuesBeliefReligiousGroupsLandBuiltPressureCatholicFinalsJewTraditionalAliensBigotryTheologianFrontiersForefathersCountercultureBeliefs And ValuesPressure Groups Author:Cal Thomas
“The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.” IfsWellsMayEndsAirSeaLandWasteMessagesResourcesRegardEnvironmentalFinalsDrawingQuartersConsumptionCurtainsStewardshipUndisciplined Author:Richard J. Foster
“Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate” MenYearsHelpingTodayJobsLastsAmericaPurposeHouseGivenNationsGoalPoorPovertyEconomicLandPolicyEqualSightFinalsEightDisappearEvery ManPrimariesTriumphGuaranteesDistressUnemploymentVanishingEconomic PolicyAmerica Today Author:Herbert Hoover
“For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.” FirstsFourPlayerTeamLandCollegeBasketballFinalsCoachesApprovalStampsBasketball PlayerCollege Basketball Author:Mike Krzyzewski