Soil Quotes - Page 5

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

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

We know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

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

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

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.

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

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

What is working stain, does not soil.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

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

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

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.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

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

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.