Famous quotes containing the words land and/or laws:
“Im right here to tell you, mister. There aint nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. My pa was born here. We was all born on it. And some of us was killed on it. And some of us died on it. Thats what makes it ourn. Bein born on it. And workin on it. And dyin on it. And not no piece of paper with writin on it.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)