Ploughed Field Quotes

#1. It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against the sky, or a crow flying across a ploughed field. She hesitated to close her eyes again, for it had risen up close to her face like something appalling.

Jessica Rydill

#2. A picture of my existence ... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow ... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

Franz Kafka

#3. It was likely, then that this - -this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field- - meant death. Death - -the thing one had always heard of (like love), the thing the poets had written about. So this was how it was going to be. But that was not the main point.

C.S. Lewis

#4. My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

Sara Teasdale

#5. A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Lew Wallace

#6. With Lake I was a child running out into the street after a shiny rainbow beach ball. The woman robbed me of all self-preservation by simply existing in my world.

Jewel E. Ann

#7. I have met Lionel Richie and Celine Dion. They were wonderful people. They proved no matter how much success you've got, you can be as normal as pie. I held it together. But when I met Halle Berry I went a bit wobbly, as I had a bit of a crush on her before I met Kate.

Peter Andre

#8. Is this overwhelming attraction really mutual, or is my believing that just a sign of impending insanity? Is my lunacy on the horizon, or is already here?

Ellen Hopkins

#9. Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Isabelle Holland

#10. My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

Zakk Wylde

#12. The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.

Brad Warner

#13. The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

John Oates

#14. Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

Juan Felipe Herrera