Sod Quotes

42 quotes by 41 authors

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be. — Jo Brand
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.… — Coventry Patmore
That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it. — Brian Weiss
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 lot that make… — D. H. Lawrence
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night,… — Mark Twain
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival
WhoÂ doesnâ€™t? I cry and smile every day. I grew up scared, because I was so skinny and had no boobs. Itâ€™s only now that… — Kaya Scodelario
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers,… — Harry S. Truman
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. — Nick Cave
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out â€” Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God! — William Ross Wallace
Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As… — William Edmondstoune Aytoun
So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God. — Frank Lebby Stanton
In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes… — Margaret Maron
For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf… — Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without… — George Bernard Shaw
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to… — James Dwight Dana
Itâ€™s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sodâ€” Small letters sent To her from… — John Updike
Malta is a sod of a place. — David Niven
Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa… — Will Self

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