Sod Quotes
42 quotes by 41 authors
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
— Jo Brand
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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
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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
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That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it.
— Brian Weiss
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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
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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
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Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
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Who doesn’t? I cry and smile every day. I grew up scared, because I was so skinny and had no boobs. It’s only now that…
— Kaya Scodelario
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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
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
— Nick Cave
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Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!
— William Ross Wallace
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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
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So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.
— Frank Lebby Stanton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from…
— John Updike
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Malta is a sod of a place.
— David Niven
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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
Who Wrote These Sod Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 42 Sod Quotes, led by these top contributors: