“We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.”

“We say that the plow made civilization but for that matter, so did manure.”

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“If there was a God he reasoned it would have the same relation to us as we have to blades of grass. Do we make them grow? Yes in the sense that we water the lawn. Do we care for them and worry over them? Again as a lawn but not as individual blades. We don't give them names. We just want them to look nice and green. A God who created the earth would want it to look nice an blue from space. He would sit back after a long day of creating things and think to himself now that's what a planet should look like.”

“You promise you'll never leave?" "Not even death could make me leave.”

“How are we to become native to this land?"(as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)”

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.”