Clod Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,… — William Cowper
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod. — Henry Lawson
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A… — William Shakespeare
War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.... — Hilda Doolittle
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed… — Eric Butterworth
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of… — Carl Sagan
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are… — Jane Kenyon
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead… — George Bernard Shaw
God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. — Robert Browning
Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in… — Mikhail Naimy
It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a… — John Bunyan
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little… — Carl Jung
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be… — John Donne
Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire… — Amy Carmichael
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his… — John Steinbeck
The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them… — William Goldman
So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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