Soil Quotes

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

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

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

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

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

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

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

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

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.