Quotes About Landlessness

#1. But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

Herman Melville

#2. The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

Aldo Leopold

#3. Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Paul Rand

#4. It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

Kara Walker

#5. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

Lionel Shriver

#7. I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

Lil' Kim

#8. If you don't know where you're going, all roads lead there.

Laurence Eubank

#9. It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

Jill Soloway

#10. I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.

David Silverman

#11. I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

Stanley Hauerwas

#12. There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

James Cash Penney

#13. The bus was crowded, standing room only, and he clung apelike from a bar that hung down from the ceiling. It was humiliating to be packed in with all these people; it reminded him of a cattle car or worse, a sardine can, or worse...but what could be worse than this?

Joseph G. Peterson

#14. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Elbert Hubbard

#15. The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Marco Polo

#16. Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.

Matthias De L'Obel

#17. When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton