My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was… — Helge Ingstad Copy Share Image
We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that… — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed,… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Who doesn’t? I cry and smile every day. I grew up scared, because I was so skinny and had no boobs. It’s… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
