Plowing Quotes

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

Easy for you to say. You’re the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed.

What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.

We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]