Sod Quotes - Page 2

• I never lost as much but twice,
  And that was in the sod.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Loss, Lost

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  God, Weed, Temples

  Frank Lebby Stanton (1898). “Comes One with a Song”

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• Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Fashion, Lying, Broken

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.105

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• That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Needs, Cutters

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• Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.

  Coventry Patmore

  Time, Stars, Sleep

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• Ask of Her, the mighty Mother.
  Her reply puts this other
  Question: What is Spring?-
  Growth in every thing -
  
  Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
  Grass and green world all together,
  Star-eyed strawberry breasted
  Throstle above Her nested
  
  Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
  Forms and warms the life within,
  And bird and blossom swell
  In sod or sheath or shell.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mother, Stars, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Life, Ocean, Eye

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 384), 1895.

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• Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

  John Muir

  Flower, Dark, Sky

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.391, e-artnow

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• Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Girl, Inspiration, Air

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• Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

  Darren Shan

  Who Cares, World, Scum

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• Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Loyalty, Laughter, Lying

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.1353, e-artnow

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• If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Heart, Dust, Voice

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• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sarcastic, Eggs, White

  Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 134

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• Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

  James Gates Percival

  Memorial Day, Pyramids, Green

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.286

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• I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

  Jo Brand

  Diaries, Miserable, Used

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• Who doesn’t? I cry and smile every day. I grew up scared, because I was so skinny and had no boobs. It’s only now that I just think, Sod it! Everyone’s different. I’m contented and happy as I am.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Thinking, Skinny, Different

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• Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

  William Ross Wallace

  Idols, Cry, There Is No God

  William Ross Wallace (1851). “Meditations in America, and Other Poems”, p.93

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• When loud by landside streamlets gush,
  And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
  With sun on the meadows
  And songs in the shadows
  Comes again to me
  The gift of the tongues of the lea,
  The gift of the tongues of meadows.
  So when the earth is alive with gods,
  And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
  And the grass sings in the meadows,
  And the flowers smile in the shadows,
  Sits my heart at ease,
  Hearing the song of the leas,
  Singing the songs of the meadows.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Flower, Heart

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

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• The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hard Work, Home, Opportunity

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Feet, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.49, Graphic Arts Books

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• The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

  James Dwight Dana

  Nature, Water, May

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.98

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• The old priest Peter Gilligan
  Was weary night and day;
  For half his flock were in their beds,
  Or under green sods lay.

  William Butler Yeats

  Night, Bed, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.137, Penguin

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

  John Updike

  Spring, Flower, Farewell

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

  Bob Goff

  Character, Looks, Growing

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jun 22, 2012

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