Shepard Point Land

Famous quotes containing the words shepard, point and/or land:

    “Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it’s much too painful.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    ““What we know, is a point to what we do not know.” Open any recent journal of science, and weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Physiology, Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)