Harrow Way Quotes

#1. Didn't Frankenstein get married?"
"Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Walter Savage Landor

#4. If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Manuel Puig

#5. You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Laura E. Richards

#7. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#8. It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. The thing that is so singular and stunning about Macbeth - indeed, it strikes one straightaway - is that all the magic Shakespeare put into writing it manages so entirely to harrow and astonish the soul.

William Shakespeare

#10. The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Think of Today, not Tomorrow. It's time to be Happy, not live a Life of Sorrow. Find out those things that make you Glad & eliminate those that make you Sad. -RVM

R.v.m.

#12. Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Agatha Christie

#13. Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.

George Eliot

#14. Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

Nelson Algren

#15. If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

Cory Booker

#16. Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?

Ellen Wilkinson

#17. Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.

Franz Kafka

#18. Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

Charlotte Lennox

#19. It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

Thomas Paine

#20. Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.

Auberon Waugh

#22. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#23. Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

W. H. Auden

#24. At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Paul Nurse

#25. The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

Bobby McFerrin

#26. I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.

Betty Dodson

#27. I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

Al Pacino

#28. Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

Debbie Ford

#29. One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Rudyard Kipling

#31. the crows are like a harrow to
unbroken ground they turn it loose
they give it air

Maurice Manning

#32. The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#33. Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#34. They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

Jack London

#35. In his imagination he performed the 'composition of place' reconstructing the scene from what he could remember of the classics, so laboriously and unprofitably rammed into his head at Harrow.

Dion Fortune

#36. Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.

Rhonda Byrne