Soil Quotes
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Our heart's where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honour We pledge to our native soil!
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More Soil Quotes
That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.
cesare pavese— The moon and the bonfire, Chapter I, p. 9
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
Louis Untermeyer— 1965 Bygones.
If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar gravel pit and then forget the whole thing, we would certainly be history's biggest fools.
wernher von braun— Speech, 15 July 1969, quoted in "Of a Fire on the Moon", Norman Mailer 1970
The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.
gardiner spring— P. 294. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Were there no mysteries in the Bible, we should doubt its being the transcript of the Eternal Mind. The "mystery of godliness" adapts it to our ruined race. Those mysteries of the Bible are like the mountains of the world; they give grandeur to the landscape and fertility to the soil.
joseph dare— P. 422. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The vine . . . is not the root merely, but all - root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: He is soil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand times more than we ever dreamed, wished for, or needed.
james hudson taylor— Dwelling in Him
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real... Oh! The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountain tops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
gordon lightfoot— Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists YouTube video
Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 690.
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel Prize (1905)
The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...
yoshijirō umezu— Quoted in "Suicide Squads: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II" - Page 267 - by Richard O'Neill - History - 1981
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
james madison— Though this had been cited as being from a letter objecting to the use of government land for churches in 1803, as quoted in 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt (1996) edited by James A Haught, no original source for this has yet been found, as stated at Positive Atheism.
The history of the ubiquitous soybean begins in China. But the Chinese did not eat unfermented soybean products because they recognized them as quite toxic. In fact, the early uses of soybeans in China were for the nitrogen-rich root systems that worked to rebuild soil with crop rotation - not for eating.
— Craig Stellpflug, in "Falling for the soy ploy (18 October 2012)"
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786), Stanza 20.
For agony and spoil Of nations beat to dust, For poisoned air and tortured soil And cold, commanded lust, And every secret woe The shuddering waters saw Willed and fulfilled by high and low Let them relearn the Law.
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, Justice (Oct. 24, 1918).
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope ; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity . . .
— Václav Havel, as quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute"
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemorality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
václav havel— Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 113
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
Douglas MacArthur— On landing in Leyte, Philippines (17 October 1944)
Here was a man who could not spell, and did not care to read — who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but was sordid and soil; and yet he had rank, and honors, and power, somehow: and was dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state.
william makepeace thackeray— Vol. I, ch. 9.
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was “the scourge of God.”
edward everett— "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth" In The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal Vol. V, No. 25 (January-June 1823), p. 64.
"It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: ‘Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?’" Holder wrote. "The answer to that question is no."
eric holder— Five questions: Targeting Americans on U.S. soil, CNN, March 8, 2013.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth the soil and the labourer.
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 15 (last sentence), pg.556
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
franklin delano roosevelt— Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (26 February 1937)
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
john updike— Act II (Buchanan Dying (1974))
Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
— Novalis, in Blüthenstaub (1798).
Even in India there are but few places so rich in historical memories as Patna. Beneath the soil watered by the blood of Mir Kasim’s victims, lie the ruins of the ancient Buddhist capital, Pataliputra, the greatness of which had been foretold by Buddha a few months before his death .
— Walter Kelly Firminger, ed.(1909) in The Diaries of Three Surgeons of Patna - 1763, The Calcutta Historical Society
If the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall, Then I think we would see the beauty, then We would stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges, Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil.
— Conor Oberst, "Bowl of Oranges", Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002).
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
— Republican Rallying Cry (1856).
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay thir just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is; and but for such, I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould.
— John Milton in Comus : A Mask (1634), line 13
The gigantic North American State, with the enormous resources of its virgin soil, is much more invulnerable than the encircled German Reich. Should a day come when the die which will finally decide the destinies of the nations will have to be cast in that country, England would be doomed if she stood alone.
— Adolf Hitler, as quoted in Mein Kampf, (1925).
