Top 380 Inhabitants Quotes & Sayings

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.

It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.