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“In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.”

Years Firsts States Sports Pieces Four Land My Family Western Four Years County Montana

Author:Huey Lewis

“As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.”

Mean Poor Pieces Land Worst Sells Excellent Owners Goods Farmers Peasants Transport

Author:Herman Gorter

“The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.”

Pieces Land Garden Owners Footprint Fertilizer

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.”

Should Trying Littles Said Real Walks Pay Pieces Wife Land Letting Go Investment Arguing Estates Buyers

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.”

Men Heart Matter Desire Fall Fighting Winning Pieces Land Kingdoms Ships Plot Prize Eggs Contracts Gamble Trophies Lordship

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands.”

People Christian Known Opinion Pieces Land Rivers Bounds Belonging Quantity Bargains Brooks Heathen Punctual Small Pieces

Author:Roger Williams

“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”

War Fighting Challenges Chance Five Pieces Alive Land Israel Small Pieces Yom Kippur

Author:Shimon Peres

“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.”

“This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.”

Knows Running Break Know How Pieces Land Horse Kicks Harness Enigma

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.”

Knows Giving Littles Dream America Names My Own Pieces Land Give Me Towns Popcorn Little Towns

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden”

Used Prayer Pieces Land Garden Used To Be

Author:Horace

“The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.”

Men Two Desire Girl Fighting Differences Pieces Land Battle Conflict Israel Palestine Triangles Love Triangle

Author:Bruno Dumont

“Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.”

Guy House Goal Pieces Land Type Needed Fancy Lifelong Type Of Guy Fancy Things

Author:Tyler Farr

“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”

World Important Done Social Bits Term Pieces Land Honor Waste Criticism Critics Various Contemporary Relief Insignificant Grumbling Waste Land

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.”

States Peace Pieces Land Ready Deserve Israel Territory Inches Involving Concessions

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“I would love to buy a piece of land in the Moon, just to feel very farsighted, extremely optimistic and absolutely crazy!”

Love Feels Pieces Crazy Land Moon Optimistic Crazy Love

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.”

Ifs Wish Pieces Land Please Small Pieces

Author:Pol Pot

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. For the yoke that was weighing upon them and the burden upon their shoulders, thou hast broken in pieces O God.”

People Light Darkness Pieces Land Broken Shadow Mental Health Burden Shoulders Yoke Weighing

Author:Isaiah

“I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”

Running Father Break Pieces Heard Land Running Away

Book:Diary and Autobiography: Diary, 1782-1804. Autobiography to October 1776

Source: Diary and Autobiography: Diary, 1782-1804. Autobiography to October 1776

“If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Character Stories Happens Asks Pieces Land Equal Ask Me Location Ecological Viewpoints

Author:Mike Mills

“I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.”

People Beautiful Walks Pieces Land Mysterious Landscape Islands Easter Statues Easter Island

Author:Philippe Petit

“I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.”

Bits Pieces Land Spring Garden Woods Small Pieces

Author:Horace

“If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?”

Ifs Way Persons Earth Pieces Land Core

Author:Peter Kay

“If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.”

Ifs Fighting House Pieces Land

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.”

Needs Pieces Nice Land Incredibles Neighbor Sunset Good Will Owl Hawks

Author:Burt Shavitz

“You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)”

Art Pieces Land Strange Photograph Sculptors Exhibitions

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

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