A Quote by Ellen Glasgow

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Ellen Glasgow

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Ellen Glasgow
American - Novelist
April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945

Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.

Walter Darby Bannard

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

Natalie Goldberg

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Teresa of Avila

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

Ambrose Bierce

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

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousuf Karsh

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

Paula D'Arcy

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Walter Darby Bannard

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Billy Graham

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

John Muir

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

Elias Hasket Derby

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

Gustav Stresemann

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!