Books Quote by J. Frank Dobie Download Open image “Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.” — J. Frank Dobie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Great literature Knows Land Literature Native Native land Soil
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf. — Maturin Murray Ballou Copy Share Image
“In Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, geomorphologist David Montgomery offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance of the teeming wilderness that is the soil (even the act of regarding it as a wilderness) is no impediment to nurturing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the -… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Nothing is unimportant in this world. Even the soil proves its usefulness in time but then you are the masterpiece of God. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation,… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
