Soil Quotes - Page 37

• 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 Hale

  Power, Men, Toil

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• Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Women, Roots, Brain

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

  William Butler Yeats

  Strong, Said, Grew

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.244, Hayes Barton Press

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• Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Vanity, Fertile

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

  Mao Zedong

  Roots, People, Communist

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.273, China Books

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• ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Spring

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

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• History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

  Jacques Barzun

  Rivers, History, Water

  "Clio and the Doctors" by Jacques Barzun, ("History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction"), 1974.

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• And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

  Homer

  Grief, Son, Blood

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• I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.

  Kelly Easton

  Mom, Stars, Dad

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• In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Spring, Clouds, Sky

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• That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Anchors, Feet, Space

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• ... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Ideas, Soul, Mind

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• Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.

  Christopher McDowell

  Beauty, Spiritual, Philosophical

  "The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard Or Garden". Book by Christopher Forrest McDowell, 1998.

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• Every soil does not produce every material.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Doe, Produce, Materials

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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• The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Progress, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.297

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• Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Selfish, Pride

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.191, Read Books Ltd

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• There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Humility, Giving

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• Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Race, Organization

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.213, Read Books Ltd

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• Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

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• Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

  Arthur Lynch

  Flower, Optimism, Grows

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  School, Justice, People

  Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights, teachingamericanhistory.org. May 30, 1963.

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• Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Enemy

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• You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have not succeeded as perfectly as you intended. What do you expect? We are made of clay and not every soil
  yields the fruits expected by the one who tills it. But let us always humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine assistance.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Humble, Yield, Clay

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• While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Art, Dark, Tragedy

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