Top 1200 Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

One of the West's singular migrations - from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley - is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...

I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ... In Reality Land, we all want to maybe put dinner on the table once in a while, but in Fantasy Land, we are not supposed to be even interested in money because we are so caught up in the emotion of it all. That's an illusion, but people like it and it makes us feel holy or something so we all play along.

I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

Met you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn't matter if it's a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

I don't dislike 'It' or 'Stranger Things,' but I'm just not as super into it, because, like, I've seen 'E.T.' a lot. And I've watched 'The Goonies.'

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.

I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was approved which has to do with the role and the place and the function of the institution of traditional leadership. Now that legislation, not the Communal Land Rights Bill, provides for the setting up of particular committees that would work together with the elected municipalities.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

I probably don't have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does - I just probably have a stranger one.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.