Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over… — John Steinbeck
The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with… — Paulo Coelho
Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. — Lurlene McDaniel
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… — Wendell Berry
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed. — Ayn Rand
I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys. — Mark Z. Danielewski
It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower,… — Brandon Sanderson
I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S.… — James Patterson
Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. — Daisaku Ikeda
I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of… — Janet Fitch
Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a… — Andy Andrews
The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil. — Jasper Fforde
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of… — Michael Pollan
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil,… — Albert Schweitzer
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all… — Louisa May Alcott
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the… — Abraham Verghese
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even… — Desmond Tutu
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,… — Michael Pollan
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said… — John Piper
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent… — John Steinbeck
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it. — Stephen King
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And… — William Shakespeare
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.… — Scott Westerfeld
Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted. — David Petersen

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