Ploughing's Quotes

#1. Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing's ended.

Dylan Thomas

#2. Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#3. There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

Orlando Figes

#4. It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gun-fire.

Arundhati Roy

#5. Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.

Kate Williams

#6. I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#7. I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

Dave Grohl

#8. First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

James Joyce

#9. By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

Andrew Dice Clay

#10. What you know has produced what you have; if you're not happy with what you have, then improve what you know.

Orrin Woodward

#11. Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

Pliny The Elder

#12. Ploughing, and clung to their feet with a weight that pulled like desire, lying hard and unresponsive when the crops were to be shorn away. The young corn

D.H. Lawrence

#13. The ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Patience Strong

#14. Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

Molly Ringle

#15. The world is full of nice people. If you cant find one, be one.

Nishan

#16. Jamie, to the best of my understanding, anything you do to help a woman who needs help is chivalry. In this case, that's ploughing.

Miles Cameron

#17. I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

Tony Abbott

#18. The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Ariel Sharon

#19. American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

Tom Wolfe

#20. If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

George Orwell

#21. Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

Vincent Van Gogh

#22. The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.

Sophie Hannah

#23. What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Justin Townes Earle

#24. To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Richard Whately

#25. And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life
not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Virginia Postrel

#27. I like you," he said. He smiled, his eyes twinkling. "You're the best person I've met all year.

Audrey Bell

#28. This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living.

Jonathan Coe

#29. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

Yuval Noah Harari

#30. The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#31. He had been ploughing his way through the early volumes, discovering the origins of Lazenby's twin obsessions: sex and eternal life.

Jonathan Aycliffe

#32. This fair world, compounded of uncountable beauties and enchantments and graces, inspired in me only one abiding fear, which was that I might live in it too long.

Dean Koontz

#33. There is only one way fit for a man
Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.

Elliot Grove

#35. Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Richard Dawkins

#36. 'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

Johnny Knoxville