Landless Quotes

#1. I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Ellen Goodman

#2. I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Jose Saramago

#3. a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.

BOB

#4. The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society.

M.C. Mary Kom

#5. The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

Robert E. Howard

#6. The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Jill Lepore

#8. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.

Holly Bodger

#9. It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.

Jenny Han

#10. He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Agatha Christie

#11. People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

Robert Genn

#12. If they hadn't tried to break me down,
I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

Gabourey Sidibe

#13. ... Oh dear, I sometimes think ... whatever would I do if anything happened ... But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking ... !

Katherine Mansfield