Soil Quotes
837 quotes by 630 authors
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
— Teresa of Avila
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly…
— Pam Brown
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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty,…
— King Albert II
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
— Sitting Bull
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
— Edmund Burke
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed…
— James Allen
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I…
— Maya Angelou
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There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are…
— David Whyte
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
— Aldo Leopold
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Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
— Reginald Heber
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The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the…
— Donald C. Peattie
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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