Quotes About Conquering Land

#1. I was a vacant room. Inside, the music produces only a dry, hollow echo.

Haruki Murakami

#2. In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#3. I am happy to experience beauty of each season; spring time, summer, autumn and winter.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

Max Stirner

#5. Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

Stephanie Ayers

#6. It's quite a discipline when we're in trouble to think of God and say, "I need some help."

Harold Klemp

#7. When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

David Garrick

#9. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

Emma Lazarus

#10. and that their conquering hordes spread northward, subduing the Finns and Lapps, whom they found in possession of the land, partly exterminating them, partly forcing them up into the barren mountains of the extreme North.

Hjalmar H. Boyesen

#11. Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.

Katherine Paterson

#13. When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.

Martin Freeman

#14. Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Will Schwalbe

#15. I always thought I was so fit.

Rod Stewart

#16. But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Rick Wakeman

#17. Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.

Linda Hogan