Tilling Quotes

#1. My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#2. To my grandmothers,
for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Lisa Wingate

#3. Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.

Tom Holt

#5. He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of emotions into each pore as if preparing my heart for tilling.

Poppet

#6. What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. With tractors, you just don't get the feel of tilling that land. So when planting season comes around, I use a hoe. To grow one useful whore, that's the motto of my pimp farm.

M.C. Humphreys

#8. Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Ellen Glasgow

#11. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

#12. The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

Herbert Read

#13. A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

Rick Warren

#14. Northwest adage that "the weather doesn't dictate what you do - it only dictates what you wear while you do it.

M.D. Grayson

#15. I sat up and pushed my wet hair out of eyes. Cal was standing a few feet away. I glared at him. Awesome job with the saving.

Rachel Hawkins

#16. Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

Suze Orman

#17. Georgie paused on the threshold for a moment as if hesitant to enter the habitation of such a perjurer lest it should be struck by lightning.

Tom Holt

#18. You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

Karen Maezen Miller

#19. I can't improve on how the Bible expresses itself, so I don't even try.

Larry Norman

#20. Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human ... a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

Vali Myers

#21. It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

Epicurus

#22. OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

Ruby Dee

#23. I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Larry Rivers

#24. He's quite mad, you know. But adventure can be very appealing.

William Ritter

#25. Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love ... !!!

Lucinda Franks

#26. She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

Edmond De Goncourt

#27. Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

William McKinley

#28. You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic?

Tom Holt

#29. The film was semi-autobiographical. Director Mahesh Bhatt based it on his relationship with actress Parveen Babi.

Anupama Chopra

#30. I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners.

Chris Tilling