Quotes About Flatlands

#1. the browning Assendelft flatlands, this stranger

Jessie Burton

#2. Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

#3. The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#4. I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

Alfonsina Storni

#5. IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS' SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes.

George Lucas

#6. Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.
They carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today.

Neil Young

#7. In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#8. The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.

Adlai Stevenson I

#9. How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?

Abraham H. Maslow

#10. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills; And yet not so - for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?

William Shakespeare

#11. I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.

Martin Amis

#13. God does not have some limited supply of power, requiring that we carefully select a few choice things to pray about. God's power is infinite. God's grace and mercy are drawn deeply from the bottomless well of His heart.

Beth Moore

#14. The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Nicholas Royle

#15. It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.

Gaspar Noe

#16. The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Billy Sunday

#17. Ty took Zane's face in both hands and kissed him for all he was worth. They wrapped around each other, clinging to the promise of the life they could have.

Abigail Roux

#18. I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Alan Moore