Top 100 Sow's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Sow's

#1. Chinese porcelain was popular, too. The word comes from the Italian for a cowrie shell; literally, porcellana was a 'little pig', and the connection seems grounded in the glossy shell's resemblance either to a pig's back or to a sow's glisteningly crinkled vagina.35

Henry Hitchings

#2. If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.

Charles Dance

#3. The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.

Henry Eyring

#4. It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Free State is British created and serves British Imperialist interests. It is the buffer erected between British Capitalism and the Irish Republic.

Liam Mellows

#5. If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with ... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Dennis Weaver

#6. With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

John Rhys-Davies

#7. Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley.

Kate Quinn

#8. Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

John Gerstner

#9. Simon stayed where he was, a small brown image, concealed by the leaves.Even if he shut his eyes, the sow's head still remained like an after-image.The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. They assured Simon that everything was a bad business.

William Golding

#10. Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Sydney Banks

#11. Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.

Odilo Globocnik

#12. Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

Norman Mailer

#13. The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#14. Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

Dave Hickey

#15. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Jonathan Swift

#16. to sow doubt that it is real; and the solution will

William S. Becker

#17. I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow.
"What's that?" asked Lorina.
"It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

David Henry Wilson

#18. If it's not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that's when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.

Joel Osteen

#19. Your religious book(s) mentioned the power of mind thousands of years ago so WHY do you have to wait until the science proves it in the 21st century? Let others wait to realize/prove the facts not you.

Maddy Malhotra

#20. Sow something positive to somebody's life and you'll get that positivity back to your life because you reap what you sow.

Euginia Herlihy

#21. There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

Frederick Lenz

#22. During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

Rick Warren

#23. You could foster happiness and add to our joy - or sow hurt and discord. It's a choice you make each day, each hour, and with each thought.

Cathy Marie Hake

#24. [S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

Peter Murphy

#25. Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law ... Sow generously and you will reap generously.

Joyce Meyer

#26. I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

E. Nesbit

#27. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.

Robert Gottlieb

#28. It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Johnny Cash

#30. Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

Max Lucado

#31. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Roy Bennett

#32. Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#33. Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.

Steven Storm

#34. Sow an action, reap a habit.

Hannah More

#35. You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

Tom Shadyac

#36. In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping with God's purpose, ye added or subtracted from the blessings ye might be conscious of in materiality. Thus karma is builded. And the law is perfect - what ye sow, ye reap.

Edgar Cayce

#37. The power of your positive words you sow into other people's lives will also be a strength engine right back to your life. And its called the law of giving and gaining.

Euginia Herlihy

#38. You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Robin S. Sharma

#39. And all Jess knew about Gwen was that she threatened Brendon Shaw's cranky sister with acid during the wedding. Not that Jess blamed her or anything, because Marissa Shaw could be a real bitch, but Lock deserved a lovely sow who loved him, pampered him, and understood his obsession with honey.

Shelly Laurenston

#40. A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#41. My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#42. We sow, we grow, our love in life's farm

Pawan Painjane

#43. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Barack Obama

#44. You reap what you sow!" I scream at him as he fades. All the rage I've felt swells in me, blinding me, and fills me with a pulsing, tangible hatred that seeps away only as Apollo's boots deactivate and he tumbles down through the swirling storm. I

Pierce Brown

#45. Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

Robert Southwell

#46. If you don't sow in your promise land, you will only be hearing other people's testimonies but yours will never come.

Sunday Adelaja

#47. It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

Adrian Rogers

#48. Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

Alamgir Hashmi

#49. If with a sweeping heart I sow firstly this seeds,
If too dearly deeds I give arms long,
That will make tomorrow a better day to gift infancy's years the sunshine song,
For none cause, then has a better bottom than smiles of youth,

Mpho Leteng

#50. But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.

Marcel Proust

#51. One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

Oscar Wilde

#52. What you sow, you reap. It's a law of nature. Network Marketing is perfectly aligned with that. You get truly, EXACTLY what you're worth! No nepotism, no favoritism. That's rare today.

Bob Proctor

#53. The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Henry James Byron

#54. Never Try To Ruin Someone.. That's Bad Karma.. Let Them Ruin Themselves The Victory Is That Much Sweeter. You Reap What You Sow!

Amanda Bynes

#55. But Vivien wasn't being given the chance to sow her wild oats. Speaking from a point of authority, it's best to get that shit out of the way when you are young.

Lisa Lutz

#56. The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

David Suzuki

#57. Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.

Victoria Osteen

#58. You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?

Sunday Adelaja

#59. She wove through the crowd, jabbing her sword into dragon-scale feet at every opportunity, and yelling, "RUN! RUN AWAY!" to sow confusion.

Rick Riordan

#60. When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.

Martin O'Malley

#61. Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

Alison Weir

#62. newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and

Diana Gabaldon

#63. Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Rumi

#64. The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.

Leonard Ravenhill

#65. 26"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Phil Robertson

#66. And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

Ben Jonson

#67. Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

Paulo Coelho

#68. The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

James Arthur Ray

#69. In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

Lawrence Lessig

#70. Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release God's law of prosperity. When you give in to your fear and eat your seed, or hide it, you release God's law of poverty.

John Avanzini

#71. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#72. When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

Steve Goodier

#73. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#74. Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. And you shall reap them all before it's night! Live life so well!

Israelmore Ayivor

#75. You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. The hordes of demonic activity at times can take advantage of those who are wounded by others in the body of Christ. When we allow any hurt we can be used of the enemy to sow discord into God's work and His body.

Greg Gordon

#77. I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#78. Sow the seeds of creation, and worry not about the results, for they shall blossom in the harvest of Life.

Abir Taha

#79. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

Napoleon Hill

#80. We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind,

Maria Montessori

#81. God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

Jeremy Taylor

#82. Do not sow the Word of God plus man's philosophies, man's theories, man's traditions. Just sow the pure Word of God. A good farmer washes his seed before he sows it. A good spiritual farmer makes sure he does not mix God's Word with anything defiling.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#83. To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.

Kevin Peter Hall

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Aparna Gangopadhyay

#85. It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

James Altucher

#86. Simply by changing our thoughts, we can sow the seeds of happiness in the garden of our minds.

Debasish Mridha

#87. I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Giordano Bruno

#88. Ryder: "Well, you're not the type I want to be my first either."
Grace:"What?"
Ryder: "You're the type I want to be my last. You know ... the settle down and marry sort. If you're my first, then I won't get to - I don't know - sow any wild oats or anything.

Linda Kage

#89. If you want to be prosperous begin to sow into your abilities, gifting's, talents, self-development and self-education

Sunday Adelaja

#90. To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#91. We do not repay mercy with murder. Kindness grows kindness, and you will reap the harvest of whatever seeds you sow.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#92. If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Joel Osteen

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

Richard Whately

#94. With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

Islom Karimov