I was sifting through the dier, and I remember thinking: This potato is important. It comes up from the soil and feeds… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the… — Cleopatra Copy Share Image
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For… — William Watson Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
“Bare ground devoid of plant cover retains heat and has little moisture to spare. Radiation from the sun, then, just sits there… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element… — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They… — William MacNeile Dixon Copy Share Image
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil,… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to,… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if… — Robert O. Young Copy Share Image