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“California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.”

Source: Conversations with Christopher Isherwood

“Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.”

“While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.”

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Author:Wendell Johnson

“They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”

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Author:Don McLean

“It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.”

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Author:Merle Haggard

“To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.”

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Author:Bob Seger

“Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.”

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Author:John Mellencamp

“Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.”

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Author:Mark Feuerstein

“Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.”

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Author:Jimmy Dean