Land Tenure Quotes

#1. The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

Douglas MacArthur

#2. Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.

Ban Ki-moon

#4. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

Gordon Cooper

#6. I'm mesmerized by the way he speaks - New Orleans is pronounced N'awlins. When he says backyard, it's backyaaad. It's the kind of voice that makes you feel instantly at home, like you're a close friend or part of the inner circle.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#7. To Annawadians, a difficult-to-raze house increased the odds that a family's tenure on airport land would be acknowledged by the relocation authorities. And so they put their money into what would be destroyed.

Katherine Boo

#8. The wrinkles in my brow,
The furrows in my face,
Say, limping age will lodge him now
Where youth must give him place.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#9. Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

George MacDonald