Territory Quotes

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people ...

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

There is no nation on earth that wasn’t built on a conquest.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

The land was ours before we belonged to the land.

I'm not a fan of people coming in the clubhouse.

The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is nobody's business to create them.

Not a speck of Chinese mud may you have.

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

Land is the productivity of our country.

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

In my early formative years, back in the territory days, if a guy didn't get along for whatever reason or didn't get over or things didn't work out, or he just wanted to relocate, he had other territories to go to to make, if not the same amount of money, substantially more or less.

Land belongs to the men folk.

[The U. S.] government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty.