Manure Quotes

86 quotes by 79 authors

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by… — Henry David Thoreau
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. — Cyril Connolly
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization… — Cyril Connolly
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work… — Paul Engle
I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and… — Eleanor Mondale
A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them… — Justus von Liebig
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. — Ree Drummond
The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship. — Kedar Joshi
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. — Joel Salatin
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. — J. Paul Getty
They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to… — Billie Holiday
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. — D. H. Lawrence
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to… — Denis Leary
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. — Moliere
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make… — Ernest Hemingway
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. — Thornton Wilder
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness… — Charlotte Bronte
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth… — E L Konigsburg
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love… — Wayne Dyer

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