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title: "1 Humble spirit Quotes By Marina Lewycka"
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> [“The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/the-tractor-must-always-be-used-as-an-aid-to-nature-not-as-a-driver/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

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## More by Marina Lewycka

> [“It’s funny, but when I talk about this business of my father and Valentina with my women friends, they’re absolutely appalled. They see a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/it-s-funny-but-when-i-talk-about-this-business-of-my-father-and/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks, we will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/there-is-no-solution-i-can-see-no-possibility-of-peace-in-my-lifetime/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/use-the-technology-which-the-engineer-as-developed-but-use-it-with-a/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/mother-who-had-never-missed-a-chance-to-fulminate-against-the-evils/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“A man needs enough...no less, no more. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/a-man-needs-enough-no-less-no-more/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“Da, sve otkako je čovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/da-sve-otkako-je-ovjek-prvi-put-digao-glavu-iznad-ulaza-u-pilju-da/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/as-romeo-and-juliet-found-to-their-cost-marriage-is-never-just-about/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging surface is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/only-the-image-of-my-father-is-unclear-as-if-something-obscure-but/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“Pappa, just stop and think for a minute. Is this really what you want?” “Hmm. What I want?” (he pronounces it ‘vat I vant’).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/pappa-just-stop-and-think-for-a-minute-is-this-really-what-you-want/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/in-the-early-days-of-space-travel-one-interesting-problem-emerged/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/in-my-country-we-say-that-ignorance-is-the-warm-bath-in-which-it-is/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be his condition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/with-a-feeling-of-despondency-so-intense-that-it-was-almost/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/two-years-after-my-mother-died-my-father-fell-in-love-with-a/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“...the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there is love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/the-wind-in-ukraina-blows-very-hard-and-cold-at-this-moment-but-it/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

> [“Svaka žena čeka gospodina Browna i njegovu tajanstvenu izbočinu, vjernoga onkraj groba; onda odjednom shvati da ono što čeka uopće ne postoji i da…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-lewycka/svaka-ena-eka-gospodina-browna-i-njegovu-tajanstvenu-izbo-inu/)

[Marina Lewycka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-lewycka/)

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