Salt Of The Earth Quotes

“To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the people. Shake the word. Have it sprinkle, melt and preserve humanity.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Scott, you are the salt of the earth. Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me. I meant scum of the earth.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

“He was friendly as a warm bowl of soup. An affable guy, he always had a dimpled smile on his face and lived life unplagued by want.”
― Joseph G. Peterson, Wanted: Elevator Man

“You might see that I am a writer for a reason. In speech and from my mouth we taste the words unseasoned. It's teasing the truth which to my mind reeks of treason.”
― Criss Jami

“Soil is forever illiterate, soil is eternally humble, yet it contains the wisdom of the universe, for it's made of the same stuff as the heavens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Up north, whenever I could get out of the store I’d go out on the desert–lots of big ranches up there–and ride after cattle. I liked it and it kept my blood running; but down here I didn’t even have a store to try to get out of. I’d sit in the cafe and rechew the newspapers, and when I couldn’t take any more of that I’d go out and drive my pickup around on these desert roads, which are all straight as strings and numbered A to Z in one direction (running east to west) and 1 to 100 in the other, with every tenth one laid right along the section line; easy to find your way wherever you wanted to go, but I didn’t know where that was. After a couple of weeks I began to think, “Well, if this is heaven I’ve had enough of it,” and I decided to go out and shop for a horse.”
― Max Schott