England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
Melina Mercouri
WarFriendsBloodSoilProtect
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
Robert Grosseteste
SeedYouKnowKindSoilLand
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Simone Weil
SoilMorePoisonSkepticismLike
Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces.
Mohammed Morsi
SecurityKindSoilEgyptPresence
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.
Derek Walcott
DieSoilSoldiersReturnArtists
Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.
Asif Ali Zardari
ResponsibilitySoilAnybody
The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
Pete Hoekstra
MorningWorldPlaceSoilWorstMore
Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use.
Norman Borlaug
WaterDeepIceEarthSoilHuman
Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
Howard Warren Buffett
HealthFarmerLivingSoilPrecious
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
Henry James Sumner Maine
HistoryStudentSoilExtraordinary
We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.
David Lange
PresentAmericanWishNewSoilAsk
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
Buddha
GoodGrowthSeedCharityBadSoil
Wrestling is rooted in the Indian soil, yet there isn't enough scope for kids who come from poorer families, but have the talent, to join the sport professionally.
Sangram Singh
TalentEnoughSoilWrestlingKids
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
Isabella Bird
WallsPlantsDesertRichEarthSoil
I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.
Varg Vikernes
FamilyStrengthCourageBelieveSoil
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
FriendshipWeatherSmallThriveSoil
Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
Laura Anne Gilman
NatureWeatherFruitAdaptSoil
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
LoveBeautyPrayerHandsYoungSoil
I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!
Ann Makosinski
MoneyExperienceFindSoilNeedOut
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
Shirin Ebadi
GovernmentCriticismAmericanSoil
I've met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I'm lucky to live on U.S. soil.
Luke Rockhold
LifeLiveServicePeopleMeSoil
We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.
Drew Bledsoe
GreatBlessedSoilComplexValley
Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
FriendNobodySoilWillAggression
We will not allow any group to use our soil to launch a terror attack against any other country. Bangladesh is no longer an exporter of terrorism, nor is it a silk route for arms smuggling as it once was.
Sheikh Hasina
CountryTerrorismGroupSoilWill
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