Soil Quotes

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. (Anton Chekhov)
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. View quote
John Updike
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. View quote
Edmund Burke
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Václav Havel
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. View quote
André Gide
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. View quote
Ray Charles
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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)
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 with blood for centuries. View quote
James Madison
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. View quote
David Ricardo
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. View quote
Margaret Atwood
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. View quote
George Santayana
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. View quote
Václav Havel
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in. View quote
James Russell Lowell
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket-not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. View quote
Peter Garrett