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.
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))
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
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
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.
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.
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)"
The competitive advantage of Patna lies in its being the state capital and its central location. It is the centre for all higher order services in the state education , health and the political centre... Patna’s location on the banks of the River Ganga ensures that there is abundant water and fertile soil in the region.
— Urban, in "City Development Plan (2010-30), Patna"
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"
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
john milton— 1637 Lycidas, l.78.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
ray charles— Fooling, Drowning, Hallelujahing, p. 174
Ay, call it holy ground,The soil where first they trod;They have left unstained what there they found —Freedom to whorship God.
felicia hemans— Stanza 10.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 11 (A Moveable Feast (1964))
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
john milton— John Milton, Lycidas, line 78.
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.
George Gershwin— Leonard Bernstein, in Charles Schwartz Gershwin: His Life and Music (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973) p. xii.
But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wide The old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hide And the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to find You'll see it all around you at this crossroads of time In the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time
gordon lightfoot— Crossroads, Track 4, United Artists
Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .
novalis— Motto
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
— Plutarch, Life of Caius Marcus Coriolanus.
Being an art born out of the soil, Manipuri dance which achieves classicity through the ages, retains still the abstract, magical quality associated with the Lai Haraoba tradition.
— Satyajit Ray in Elangbam Nilakanta Singh (1982). Aspects of Indian culture. Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy. p. 75.
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Building of the Ship (1849), line 66.
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
john milton— John Milton, Comus (1637), line 420.
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
— Isaac Barrow, p. 612. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
