Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

John Dewey

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ho Chi Minh

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

James Joyce

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Horace Walpole

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

Jim Rohn

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

Margaret Atwood

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All soils are not fertile.

Simon Wiesenthal

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

John Milton

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Nikolai Gogol

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Plautus

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Thomas Jefferson

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Satish Kumar

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

William Zinsser

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Saxby Chambliss

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

Richard V. Allen

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.