The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you’re on, like, NBC, or – I don’t want to call out any names. But when you’re on bigger networks, they just want to find something that sticks and aren’t really necessarily trying to develop anything. On TV Land, they’ve developed ‘The Exes.’ – Donald Faison
I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right. – Elijah Parish Lovejoy
In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. – Emma Goldman
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. – David Ricardo
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. – David Lynch
On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted. – Fidel Castro
Pakistan hasn’t been cast in the role of… interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians. – Mohsin Hamid
My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic. – Deborah Kara Unger
The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes. – Marvin Olasky
Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California. – Duncan Hunter
There is no question that Israelis – indeed, all concerned Jews – have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel. – David Novak
Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you. – Nate Berkus
I’m a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all – and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness. – Eduardo Galeano
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man’s land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America. – David Cameron
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land. – Norman Davies
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for. – Margaret Mitchell
I’ve always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful – doesn’t really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you’re 1,500 miles from land. There’s no one you can call. You’re on your own. – David Crosby
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country. – Fidel Castro
All the sudden, I was part of the ‘No Man’s Land’ thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc. – Greg Rucka
To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. – Fran Lebowitz
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos. – F. Sionil Jose