Promised Land

As a midwestern expat (I lived in Wisconsin from '68-'92) most of the people I knew did not view California as any sort of promised-land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You like to trumpet about how high home prices in California show immigrants haven't made it a worse place to live, but according to this native born Californians are leaving for greener pastures, whereas California was once a sort of promised-land for Midwesterners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ironically, a great many of the Iranian-Americans have fled their native countries with substantial capital and advanced educational and professional acumens in the dire hope of living their lives peacefully in the promised-land! ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was a letter whose promised-land spirit Mark Twain would fold in to his great comic character “Colonel” Eschol later “Beriah” and “Mulberry” Sellers in The Gilded Age: ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Aurora's paintings give a clear hint of what Rushdie is up to in this, his own "Palimpstine" project: not overpainting India in the sense of blotting it out with a fantasy alternative, but laying an alternative, promised-land text or texturation over it like gauze. ❋ Coetzee, J.M. (1996)

Trading to a so-called contender is no promise of the promised-land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And if anyone deserved to see that glorious blue earth beckoning with the promised-land, it was Dee. ❋ Tvogt (2009)

"What they didn't work out is that when you get to the promised-land, is it worth being there? ❋ Unknown (2009)