Soil Quotes

837 quotes by 630 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. — Sitting Bull
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles
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
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
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
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
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. — Reginald Heber
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
But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who Wrote These Soil Quotes

630 authors contributed a total of 837 Soil Quotes, led by these top contributors: