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“We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.”

States President United United States Saws Land Conflict Fourth Troops Historic Foreign Lands American Troops

Author:Michele Bachmann

“Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.”

Should Mean Land Resorts Dubious Foreign Lands

Book:Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

Source: Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

“I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

Men Heart Soul Teach Knowing Teaching Land My Heart Unions Rewards Aliens Good Thoughts Foreign Lands Power And Strength

Author:Zoroaster

“A woman is a foreign land.”

Land Foreign Lands

Author:Coventry Patmore

“When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.”

Sea Land Israel Almighty Bondage Foreign Lands

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

“I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.”

Film Land Diaries Foreign Lands

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

Has Beens Land Stranger Foreign Lands

Author:Moses

“Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.”

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.”

Choices Land Strive Native Slips Adoption Strife Foreign Lands

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.”

Progress Sea Land Travel Kingdoms Soil Sand Native Foreign Lands

Book:Emblems: Divine and Moral

Source: Emblems: Divine and Moral

“Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.”

I Can Running Song My Own Land Planets Make Sense Location Lenses Foreign Lands

Author:Jon Foreman

“I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.”

Feels Persons Land Becoming Foreign Lands

Author:Louise Erdrich

“it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?”

Ifs Should Doe Suffering Belief Land Travel Ordinary Frustration Reflexes Foreign Lands

Author:Gertrude Diamant

“Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.”

Ifs Giving Mind Land Travel Pockets Sunshine Pills Foreign Lands

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.”

Interest Millions Land Slave Profit Owners Handful Peasants Slaughter Bourgeoisie Plunder Downtrodden Foreign Lands Serfs Wage Slaves

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.”

People Thinking Jobs Roles Land Ambassadors Foreign Lands

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.”

People Ifs Knows Country Language Given Chance Half Land Willing Population Uncertainty Abandon Peru Foreign Lands

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.”

Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.”

Important Different Feelings Space Break Plans Society Land Habit Travel Speech Important Things Reactions Landscape Village Formation Tourism Habitual Travel And Tourism Foreign Lands

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Kids America Film Born Land Needed Get Away American Movie American Film Foreign Lands

Author:Andrew Garfield

“To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'”

Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.”

Land Traveller Foreign Lands

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'”

Asks Belief Blood Sea Land Brother Fool Crosses Killing Like Me Command Sheep Spills Foreign Lands

Author:Dave Mustaine

“There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.”

“When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.”

“I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."”

World Land Touring Foreign Lands

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.”

Different Able Land Stranger Helpful Liberating Resonance Foreign Lands

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

Men Said Land Dying Grieving Descent Hades Foreign Lands

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.”

Land Foreign Lands

Author:Catherine O'Hara