#territory

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #context #define #edges #found

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#been #break #gets #ground #harder

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. ↗

— Edward Grey

#being #could #crushed #europe #france

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#distinguishes #familiar #familiar territory #fight #objectives

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#carolinas #charters #extending #given #had

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory. ↗

— Sean Booth

#although #america #being #cities #completely

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crowded #difficult #establish #had #houses

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale. ↗

— John Major

#first #first time #had #hit #home

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#netherlands #territory #whole