“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.”
Ricardo Montalban
“A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
“When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France”
Charles Krauthammer
“As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.”
James Allen
“The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds”
Plutarch
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