Forfeited Land Quotes & Sayings

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose. — Carlos Santana

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph from Reggie. I was so frustrated. I mean, he was my idol. And I couldn't get no autograph. I would go through punishment waiting on him (after games) because he was always the last guy to come out. And I would go back home with no autograph. — Rickey Henderson

I haven't forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy. — Isabel Allende

This New World utopia, this promised land, was soon buried under the ashes and cinders that erupted over the Western World in the nineteenth century, thanks tot he resurrection and intensification of all the forces that had originally brought 'civilization' itself into existence. The rise of the centralized state, teh expansion of the bureaucracy and the conscript army, the regimentation of the factory system, the depredations of speculative finance, the spread of imperialism, as in the Mexican War, and the continued encroachment of slavery-all these negative movements not only sullied the New World dream but brought back on a larger scale than ever the Old World nightmares that the immigrants to America had risked their lives and forfeited their cultural treasures to escape. — Lewis Mumford

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it. — Frank E. Peretti