"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."
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"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways."
"The song still remains which names the land over which it sings."
"I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land."
"In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land."
"Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia."
"A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land."
"If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people."
"The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence."
"People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time."
"Love and faith go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And as we all know, taking the leap ain't always safe. Sometimes you judge poorly, and you land right on your face. But unless you make the jump, you'll never know what's on the other side. You just gotta find the guts to do it."
"In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can."
"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield."
"Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God."
"My native land, good night!"
"What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?"
"I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so."
"In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state."
"As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways."
"I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands."