#land

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#freedom #hard #independence #land #our

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show. ↗

— Roma Downey

#come #create #god #had #i

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#landscape #nature #nature-s-beauty #beauty

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#england #entire #entire world #greatest #our

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#departments #ensuring #homeland #keep #local

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#calls #fatherland #itself #murder #ready

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#become #fatherland #inclined #more #nobody

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#deserve #easily #elizabeth #emperor #england

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just