Soil Quotations | Page 4

Saints can spring from any soil.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

These are new landforms that have never been seen before on Mars. We see features that look like gullies formed by flowing water and the deposits of soil and rocks transported by these flows.

These are new landforms that have never been seen before on Mars, ... We see features that look like gullies formed by flowing water and the deposits of soil and rocks transported by these flows.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Ah! never shall the land forgetHow gushed the life-blood of her brave --Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet,Upon the soil they fought to save.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -- Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

The disappearance of Charles Taylor from Nigerian soil is a humiliating disgrace to Nigeria. Obasanjo must explain why this happened.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.

No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed sown in good soil, brings abundant fruit. Thus you will remain docile to the Spirit and grow in union with God, you will cultivate fraternal communion among yourselves and be ready to serve your brethren generously, especially those most in need.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil.

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.