Quotes About Ploughing

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Arundhati Roy

#9. 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

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

Yuval Noah Harari

#11. 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

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

Dylan Thomas

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

Jonathan Aycliffe

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Richard Whately

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

M. K. Asante

#22. To the devil with every miserable desire to seem more than one is

Robert Walser

#23. 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

#24. You're either going to have to do something about the way you feel or you're
going to have to move on.

Natasha Anders

#25. If this Roman dude's as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?

Alyson Noel

#26. There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#27. NASCAR fans are very knowledgeable and very passionate.

Jimmie Johnson

#28. I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

Neill Blomkamp

#29. John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

Rupert Hughes

#30. There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

Peter James