#land

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#because #boots #bothered #cleaning #club

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#dr #island #left #livingstone #march

I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you to be sure, in case this time - out of, say, 10,000 departures I never made it back: although after 50 years together, 2 countries, 3 children, and several former journeys that would put this one to shame you’d think there’d be no need to pause on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty, of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch. ↗

— Peter Bland

#peter-bland #beauty

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. ↗

— John Corigliano

#automatically #because #british #composer #england

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#every #get #ground #her #jump

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#breathing #breathing thing #changes #character #day

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#land #many #naval #powers