Famous Land Quotes

"Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate."
Andrew Carnegie

"The major fortunes in America have been made in land."
John D. Rockefeller

"I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
Shakespeare

"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
Thomas Jefferson

"He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land."
Hebrew Proverb

"A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best investment on earth is earth."
Louis Glickman

"It is a comfortable feeling to know tht you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only think that can't fly away."
Anthony Trollope

"My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone."
Gladys Taber

"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
Harriet Martineau