Best 185 quotes in «soil quotes» category

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

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

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.

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

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

What is working stain, does not soil.

We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.