Quotes for All
Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen – even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land – is among the gravest that government leaders can face. Eric Holder
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole. Francis Quarles
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Diogenes Laertius
Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don’t understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; ‘Do you kill on God’s command?’ Dave Mustaine
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language. Daniel Alarcon
A woman is a foreign land. Coventry Patmore
I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I’ll never be someone who’s been on the road. Charlotte Gainsbourg
It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful. Charlotte Gainsbourg
There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment…The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is … Read more
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs ‘caelum non animum mutant’: they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets. Charles Caleb Colton