Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
Marsha Blackburn

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
Jim Fowler

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles

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

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Henry Cabot Lodge

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
Shirin Ebadi

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide

Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large.
Ahmed Yassin

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Henry Cantwell Wallace

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein

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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke

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

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.
Robert T. Bakker

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

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
Eisaku Sato

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
Jeff Miller