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Quotes of the Day for 30 April 2005 - Land

Since the development of agriculture humans have always wanted land, as much of it as possible. On this day in 1803, Robert Livingston and James Monroe, representing the US government, signed a series of agreements committing the US to pay sixty million French francs for nearly a million square miles called Louisiana. I suspect that each of us will have to settle for smaller plots.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
     - Eric Hoffer, 1902 - 1983

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
     - Havelock Ellis, 1853 - 1939

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
     - Marcel Proust, 1871 - 1922

Buy land. They've stopped making it.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.
     - Scott Russell Sanders

This land is your land and this land is my land - sure - but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
     - Bob Dylan

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