#soil

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#funny #funny things #happen #home #know

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. ↗

— John Harrison

#build #fine #just #material #organic

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

#birth #certainties #could #doubt #experiencing

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

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. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#carefully #dragging #give #homeland #jews

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#bleed #cannot #deed #hand #hell

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#blessings #climate #coal #easy #fertile

God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built. ↗

— King Hussein I

#built #come #god #lebanese #looks

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#grows #ignorance #miracles #soil #which

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

#did #find #meaning #myths #only