Inspirational Heartland Quotes

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

Wherever we live and wherever we come from is our individual heartland. Anything is possible and everything can happen. Pure imagination is in all of us—we only need to discover it, and sometimes story telling helps.

An empire is often understood to be an aggregate of subject states, subdued by force and exploited for their resources to the aggrandizement of the heartland. It’s hard to dispute that this was Canada’s origin. But empire can also be construed as meaning to build, to connect or to unify. The older, now archaic word empyreal was used to denote something pertaining to the sky or heavens, something inspiring of awe. In a practical sense, relating to a political entity, the inspiration of awe could flow from the seemingly invincible power to control and direct and exploit; yet it could also flow from a string of grand or noble universal achievements. For many people these days, it’s unclear from which tributary of history we have sprung, in which world we now live. It shouldn’t be unclear to which world we should aspire.

I suppose that a lot of people thought my "Make 'em Squeal" campaign ad was just a clever way of getting public attention, and it surely did that. But I really meant it, too. So, in the early days of my term, I sat down with my staff and laid out the way I saw it. "Iowans sent me to the Senate with the mission of cutting wasteful spending- and making Washington squeal," I told them. "Let's do it.

He who controls the heartland controls the world.