“The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.” FirstsHomeRaceLandFindingsPlentyBritainSectsJuliusSprungEpicureanDumplings Author:John Arbuthnot
“Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.” StillsKnownFourLandFindingsTraditionHillsDictatorshipMessengersMeadowsPloughing Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.” MayChristLandRocksSorrowQuietFindingsTrialsShelterRefugeWeary Author:J.R. Miller
“Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.” PeopleFirstsOpportunityCitiesStepsImpossibleLandFindingsFarmersFirst Steps Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.” ThinkingMenShouldMindHas BeensIdeasStrongLandGoes OnDespairFindingsDiscoveryFormerEmpiresDiscoveringConquestDiscouragedStrong MindDiscovering Things Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.” KindRealCountryTermVisionLandFindingsImmigrantsLiteralMigrationInvokePromised LandDiaspora Author:Anne Waldman
“I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.” MindLooksStillsPastLandBuildingWalkingFindingsReflectionMarkGlassesScarShockedGetting OldGetting OlderFolds Author:Dave Matthews
“As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head” MightNightWalksLandStrangeFindingsLaysStrangerMilesStranger In A Strange Land Author:Mary Church Terrell
“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.” RealEyeSeeingLandAdventureFindingsDiscoveryDoomedNew Eyes Author:Paul-Emile Victor
“People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.” PeopleShouldSometimesRealizingBehindsLandCostFindingsPropertyCornersOilImpressionSurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason