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.
Richard V. Allen
SocietyBornMannersSoilNever
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
Jane Leavy
BaseballWarWorldFinancialSoil
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
AchievementMeBetterGeniusSoil
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters
TruthLightSoilWillWayLike
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.
Charles Sturt
NewSoilMoreProductionColonies
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
RootsBetterWishSoilOutGive
Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
Kate Williams
DailyHistoryKeyUnderstandingSoil
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
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
FreedomTreeSoilEmancipation
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
Nancy Gibbs
LoveStartAmericanSoilDNAFirst
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke
SlaverySoilWeedGrowsEvery
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
Joel Salatin
WorkFoodEndEnvironmentPigSoil
Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.
John Holdren
StartResultSoilSomethingCourse
It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war.
Stephen Kinzer
SeaWarWorldAmericanNothingSoil
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
Mike Lee
WarFlyThinkSoilOverAct
The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end his irresponsible allegations of injustices at the facility, which operates in a framework that respects the rule of law, keeps terrorists off American soil, and bolsters our national security.
Jason Chaffetz
TimeLawEndAmericanSecuritySoil
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Chester W. Nimitz
WarEnemySoilNavyCarryFunction
From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.
Peter Diamandis
WaterViewPoint Of ViewKnowSoil
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil.
Rick Tumlinson
SearchBetterTrueSoilHunting
If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.
Julian Baggini
ArtLearnLivingSoilSomething
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
LoveNewSoilMoreRoughEven
The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
FreedomWavesBloodFlagSoilOver
Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it's also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.
Charles Boustany
SufferingTragedyLostSoilOil
We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.
Theodor Mommsen
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