(148 quotes found)
“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
“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'”
Charlotte Bronte
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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
“The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds”
Plutarch
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
