Chop Wood Quotes

#1. I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

#2. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!

Leonard Bernstein

#3. I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.

Kemp Muhl

#4. American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#5. I really don't have a problem with gay marriage ... because I'm tolerant and rational.

David Cross

#6. Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Gautama Buddha

#7. Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Henry Ford

#8. I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.

James Patterson

#9. There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Eula Biss

#10. Tori felt like she'd accidentally wandered into the men's locker room. Everywhere she looked there was rippling muscle. Testosterone hung thick in the air, and she had the overwhelming urge to chop some wood or fix a carburetor... maybe skin an animal or two.

Bethany K. Lovell

#11. When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.

Layman Pang

#12. Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

June Diane Raphael

#13. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#14. It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is the desire to go to sleep clothed in a different personality, to forget, dulled by an increase in salary.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!

C. G. Jung

#16. When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.

Tony Horwitz

#17. When you chop wood, splinters fly

Joseph Stalin

#18. When you chop wood, chips fly.

Nikolai Yezhov

#19. Boys need wood to chop.

Stephen D. Nadauld

#20. I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Sade Adu

#21. My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff.

George R R Martin

#22. I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

Hilarie Burton

#23. (Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

Matthew Tindal

#24. I wait in front of the stadium, scrolling through Facebook on my cell phone. I swear if one more of my high school friends posts pictures of their lunch, kids, or dogs, I'm going on a spree reporting everyone as spam.

Aly Martinez

#25. Here, we chop wood to keep warm. If you think that's amateurish, all I can say to you is this: You are more vulnerable than you think.

Anne Fortier

#26. To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

T. S. Eliot

#27. Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Harrison Ford

#28. There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

Morley Callaghan

#29. Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Dwight D. Eisenhower