Landowning Quotes & Sayings

One of the most important things I learned is forging a rapport with someone at your insurance company. Know their names. You'll eventually get someone who will tell you, "This is how you do an appeal. This is what you need to say in your letter. " You can also always go to the ER to get whatever you need to tide you over for a few days. — Jenny Lawson

In those days they weren't citizens as we know them, but old landowning families with vast estates of fields and meadows. — E.H. Gombrich

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. — Julian Fellowes

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet. — Anna Godbersen

Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest. — Sarah Hall

You're like that single wild flower that grows from the crack in the pavement: miraculous growth with no water source or fertile soil. A person walking by would step around that flower to avoid crushing it. It's not like the field of wild flowers you tromp through carelessly, crushing them under your feet, knowing that the next day will bring a hundred more. — J.B. Salsbury

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. — Jean Paul

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. — Carl L. Becker

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it. — Brie Larson

The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

If men like Boyle think that force is all they need to rob their betters - let them see what happens when one of their betters chooses to resort to force. — Ayn Rand

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out. — Jim Carrey

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. — Barbara Pym