Quotes About Sod

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

Atoms dead could never thus Stir the human heart of us Unless the beauty that we see The veil of endless beauty be, Filled full of spirits that have trod Far hence along the heavenly sod And seen the bright footprints of God.175

The void and the unspeakable loneliness, the stillness and the silence and the darkness that awaited beneath the sod: no, no movement; no breathing; nothing. Too much … too much.

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.

Within the Jewish tradition there are different kinds of biblical commentary: pshat, literal translation; drash, rabbinic explication; remez, symbolic interpretation; and sod, secret or mystical meaning.

Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,Play the Dead March as you carry me along;Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o'er me,For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.

It's the absence of all the bodies, she thinks, that allows us to forget. It's that the sod seals them over.

It's the absence of all the bodies, she thinks, that allows us to forget. It's that the sod seals them over.

Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemed he—Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C.!That he, who many a year, with toil of breath,Found death in life, may here find life in death.

Freddie is here' Gabriel said 'Lazy sod

Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night.

What profession doesn't make mistakes? Cooks cover their errors with sauces; architects, with ivy; and doctors cover theirs with sod.

The trouble with Scotland is a bunch of numpties saw Braveheart and now they think if we could only sod about the hills in kilts all day, flashing our arses at the English, somehow everything will be all right.

Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

They rode, eighteen ill-natured, uncomfortable cowboys, tumultuously away from the camp, where canvas bulged and swayed, and loose corners cracked like pistol shots, over the hill where even the short, prairie grass crouched and flattened itself against the sod; where stray pebbles, loosened by the ungentle tread of pitching hoofs, skidded twice as far as in calm weather.

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

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.

I find a star-lovely art In a dark sod. Joy that is timeless! O heart That knows God!

A disconcerting image of the cameraman thrown in a shallow grave passed through my sights; he sat up in the dark and noticed the blanket of his bed was made of sod.