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IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
I did a tandem parachute jump when I opened a golf course in Atlanta, Georgia. I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet to land on the first tee, and then I played a couple of holes with golfer Arnold Palmer. That was brilliant.
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.
I'm still the biggest wrestling fan there is; I'm the biggest mark in the land. I just took it further and started doing it!
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
My ultimate dream is for the Irvine Ranch to be known and celebrated as much for the outstanding communities we've planned and built as it is for what is not developed. The beneficiary being the 50,000 acres of undeveloped land that is now permanently preserved and conserved as Open Space and parklands.
Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts.
I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.
I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them.
Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.
The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.
We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.
We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.
Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
I think it's a rite of passage that the minute you land in Japan, you have to go to a karaoke bar.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
Deciding whether to confirm a president's nominee for the highest court in the land is a responsibility I take very seriously.
In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
I'm acutely aware of the environment but I'm far from perfect - I love Land Rovers and fly too much.
Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.
You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.
MPs are members in Delhi Development Authority. They can improve land allotment in schools, colleges, hospitals. MPs head the district-wise committee on monitoring how government bodies function. So, incrementally, MPs on their own can improve the situation.
Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers, the devastation is worse, and that is scary.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.
Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'
I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.
'Hook' was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, so we played with that theme on the title 'Never Land.'
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.
I only entered the industry when I was 16. I really didn't have much of a struggle to land myself a role in a film.
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.
Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.
For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.
One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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