Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. — Pythagoras
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. — Kahlil Gibran
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. — Vance Havner
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. — Isak Dinesen
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche — Bob Goff
Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life. — Lysa TerKeurst
For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth. — Xenophanes
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad. — Ramakrishna
One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all. — Sarada Devi
We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light? — John Stott
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc. — Carl Jung
Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see. — N. T. Wright
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society. — Pope Francis
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. — Joyce Meyer
The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church. — David Barton
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness — Suheir Hammad
As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him. — R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt. — Olav H. Hauge
I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community. — John C. Maxwell
Salt To The Sea Quotes
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring. — Michael Leunig
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt. — Geoffrey Zakarian
The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. — Daphne Du Maurier
The earth has music for those who listen.
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples. — Dorothy L. Sayers
And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days. — Dylan Thomas
All the sea-gods are dead.
You, Venus, come home
To your salt maidenhead. — Allen Tate
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
I love sea salt spray but I hate being salty from the ocean, so I'll always shower after surfing, shampoo and condition my hair and then put in the salt spray. It's sort of a reverse cycle, but I just can't do the natural sea salt - it just feels too crunchy to go out with. — Laura Enever
Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open. — Jack Nicklaus
It is what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown. — Elizabeth Bishop
I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt. — James Nares
Sea Salt Quotes
If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch. — Nasim Pedrad
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. — Isak Dinesen
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal? — Fernando Pessoa
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk. — William Henry Hudson
The sea drives truth into a man like salt. — Hilaire Belloc
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea. — Isak Dinesen
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. — William Shakespeare
In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it. — Rumi
Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea. — Isak Dinesen
Do you know a cure for me?
Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.
Salt water? I asked him.
Yes, he said, in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. — Karen Blixen
Grain Of Salt Quotes
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine
It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt. — Hope Solo
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it. — Thomas Jefferson
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea.
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody. — Yolanda Adams
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. — W. H. Auden
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. — Proverbs
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. — Mickey Spillane
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves. — John Piper
Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth — Mick Jagger
People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate. — Gene Simmons
The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. — Jamais Cascio
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. — Rebecca West
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. — Anthony Trollope
We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps. — John Piper
They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly — David Bowie
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame. — Faith Hill
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar. — Alice Walker
But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. — John Stuart Mill
In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . . — Barbara G. Walker
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky. — Pablo Neruda
I had this great teacher, Milton Katselas, who was this loud Greek who had directed Bette Davis and Liv Ullmann, and brought Edward Albee to this country. He said, "Why do you keep trying to be a Rolex watch when you're the salt of the earth?" Except he said it much louder. — Beth Grant
Finding a title for a book is something that I work really hard at ... So, in Salt, I realized that the book was a lot about how people live on the earth together and who has access to the resources of the earth. So salt was a very specific thing that people needed, but it's also symbolic because of the way it comes out of the earth. — Helen Frost
Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth. — Joe Biden
I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men. — Tanit Phoenix
At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth. — Buzz Aldrin
the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet. — Alice Meynell
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste. — Vance Havner
I define sexy as a real salt-of-the-earth woman who knows who she is, who feels strong and powerful. — Sayings
The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence. — Vernon Howard
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be. — Rachel Carson
He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets. — Warren Ellis
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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