Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the ‘supreme law of the land’, in most instances they’re not even law. – Sonia Sotomayor
I’ve never been the type of guy that’s ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house. – Tyler Farr
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. – Theodor Herzl
Just because we’re Knopf doesn’t mean we shouldn’t sell books as well as any other publisher in the land. – Sonny Mehta
I’m a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That’s one I invented. It’s like me – you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot. – Tom Scholz
If I knew how to operate a DVR, you’d find episodes of ‘The Tavis Smiley Show,’ ‘Democracy Now!’ and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and films from the Criterion collection. – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. – Theodor Herzl
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. – William Graham Sumner
Worm or beetle – drought or tempest – on a farmer’s land may fall, Each is loaded full o’ ruin, but a mortgage beats ’em all. – Will Carleton
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him. – Standing Bear
I made my own fictional land, which is ‘Bell Choir Coast.’ It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for. – Sydney Wayser
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically. – Sylvia Earle
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste. – Sri Mulyani Indrawati
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. – Sebastiao Salgado
During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians. – Theodor Mommsen
The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids. – Theodor Mommsen
The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline. – Vinod Khosla
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. – Wendell Johnson
The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. – Yitzhak Shamir
We’ve gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus. – Shashi Tharoor
In more recent years, I’ve become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest. – Terri Windling
Fracking kills, and it doesn’t just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world. – Yoko Ono
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. – Theodor Herzl
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. – Tadao Ando
My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker. – Tori Amos
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. – W. E. B. Du Bois
I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize. – Shai Agassi
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. – William Odom