“I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.” IfsWritingRealizingWalksRoomsStepsDogAmountComputerSittingStuckSoilAmazedWriting LifeCropsVacuumsLiving RoomFertileSitting DownSmall AmountsFertile Soil Author:Donald Miller
“What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!” MenChildrenBreakWifeBreadSoilSweatStubbornBrows Author:William Morris Hunt
“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.” HardForceNationsMilitaryMembersSmartBlessedGratefulSoilAlsDozenSpeakersSeptemberCapturedSeptember 11Al QaedaTaliban Author:Marsha Blackburn
“The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.” KnowsEarthColorMoonSurpriseSoilGrayShadeOrangeBlandLooking DownShades Of Gray Author:Gene Cernan
“Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.” WantActionIraqHarmNeighborSoilTarget Author:Ahmed Chalabi
“It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.” HumansDifficultProtectConcernTerroristHuman LifeSoilTerrorist Attacks Author:Saxby Chambliss
“Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child's trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child's special talents and unique capacities.” MindHeartChildrenHas BeensHelpingMotherGivenResultsInfluenceSpecialTalentDivineUniqueCapacityPlantInstinctFruitEndureSeedsYour ChildrenSoilRighteousHeart And MindFertileBeing A MotherMother's LoveSpecial TalentsFertile Soil Author:Richard G. Scott
“My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.” FatherScientistSoilSurveysGeological Time Author:Jim Fowler
“It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.” FactsLightEnergyHeavenNatureTreeSkyRootsStrikesStreamsSoilRooted Author:Simone Weil
“One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.” IfsMenGivingFirstsMovingCertainOrderSpaceAnimalTechnologyEnvironmentEmotionalProductsFirst TimeConcernFunctionStatementsRationalSoilAdsOur EnvironmentNestsSyndromesMetabolism Author:Krafft Arnold Ehricke
“I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.” IfsKnowsWayKindMatterLightArtistTerribleSoil Author:David Knopfler