#land

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consciously #democratic #economic #economic prosperity

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. ↗

— George Vancouver

#changed #coloured #consequence #falling #into

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#hugely #i #i am #ireland #played

I think Scotland has some great stories. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#i #i think #scotland #some #stories

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#area #bodies #bones #carries #complete

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. ↗

— William Dampier

#being #best #dry #generally #i

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#cafe #culture #dublin #fantastic #ireland

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. ↗

— Larry David

#eat #fight #fighting #get #like