Best land & stranger Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you.”

World Persons Land Strange Negative Stranger Endless Vibrations Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.”

Kind Country Play Seems Running Faces Clear Land Rivers Stranger Rays Moonlight Grim Gleam Wilder Nightfall Moonbeams Plateaus

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.”

Humans Stories Motivational Born Powerful Land Changed Strange Activity Essentials Stranger Transmission Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Richard Halliburton

“We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.”

Should Firsts Country Found Cities Enemy Failing Land Masters Prepared Stranger Enterprise Disguise Be Prepared Hostile

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

People Death Land Poet Honor Stranger Prophet Death And Dying Dying Death Near Death Stranger In A Strange Land Someone Who Is Dying

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.”

Fall Land Stranger Farewell

Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

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

Has Beens Land Stranger Foreign Lands

Author:Moses

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.”

Knows Country Film Language Player Land Strange Tvs Like You Couple Stranger Visiting Foreign Countries Abnormality Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Anthony Heald

“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.”

“The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.”

Natural Land Stranger Wedlock

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.”

“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.”

Thinking Knows Hard Seems Black Justice Cities Streets Land Diversity Social Justice Folks Stranger Granted Each Day Suspects Farms Pavement City Streets

Author:Richard Wright

“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”

Might Night Walks Land Strange Findings Lays Stranger Miles Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“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

“If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.”

Ifs Men I Can Soul Film Views Land Strange Stranger Point Of View My Soul Aliens Surround Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.”

Men America Black Modern Land Type Jew Stranger Rejected Bondage Pharaohs

Author:Malcolm X

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