The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.
Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 911? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect. . . without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.
I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.