#land

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man

I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you to be sure, in case this time - out of, say, 10,000 departures I never made it back: although after 50 years together, 2 countries, 3 children, and several former journeys that would put this one to shame you’d think there’d be no need to pause on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty, of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch. ↗

— Peter Bland

#peter-bland #beauty

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England. ↗

— Phil Collen

#england #played #years

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. ↗

— Jason Statham

#canary #father #islands #now #run

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. ↗

— John Corigliano

#automatically #because #british #composer #england

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. ↗

— Betty Hill

#baltimore #book #did #hour #i

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#every #get #ground #her #jump

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#land #many #naval #powers

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ↗