#land

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#boon #earth #gift #land #often

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#doctrines #exaggerated #goes #individual #jealousy

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#falls #land #might #niagara #our

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#afterwards #away #came #demanded #i

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#look #middle-class #must #safety

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ↗

— Tony Greig

#coming #contract #end #had #happen

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

I really wanted to get out of England. ↗

— Jared Harris

#get #i #out #really #wanted

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. ↗

— Jim Henson

#because #design #first #i #interested