Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing. – Kate Brown
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. – John Moody
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses. – John C. Wright
I’m a schoolteacher. That’s even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they’re often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth. – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I have to keep working because, although I have land, I’m not cash rich and don’t have the wealth of high-profile actresses – don’t say I’m an ‘actor.’ That’s a bit too modern. – Miriam Margolyes
The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house. – Janine Turner
I don’t ever land on an album title until I know exactly what’s going on the record, because you never know until it’s all said and done. – Josh Turner
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land – and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour. – Johann Lamont
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn’t get trashed. – John C. Malone
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. – Josiah Strong
In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. – Joseph Jacobs
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. – John Buchanan Robinson
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. – James H. Douglas, Jr.
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can’t deal with the reaction by giving him money. – Kushal Pal Singh
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. – Knute Nelson
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. – Joseph Hume
How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let’s make this a true land of opportunity. – Laurene Powell Jobs
Everybody has an idea of the tsunami of being a big wave. It is not a big wave. It is a huge amount of water that comes to land. – Juan Antonio Bayona
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. – Jack Schwartz
The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one. – Larry Holmes
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. – Juan Goytisolo
Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg. – Janet Suzman
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame
I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn’t even exist. – Lilla Crawford
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time – bad news is taboo. – Michael Leunig
Down in the south, it’s how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that’s what I’ve done. – John Prescott