Plowing Quotes

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. (Frederick Douglass)
We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up. ]. View quote
Rick Riordan
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. View quote
William Feather
From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year. ...though very young, was large for his age, and had an ax put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument - less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? View quote
Seymour Cray
We live in a swiftly changing world. Industrial and water-engineering projects, cutting of forests, plowing up of virgin lands, the use of poisonous chemicals - all such ac­tivity is changing the face of the earth, our "habitat." Scientific study of all the interrelationships in nature and the consequences of our interference clearly lags be­hind the changes. Large amounts of harmful wastes of industry and transport are being dumped into the air and water, including cancer-inducing substances. Will the safe limit be passed everywhere, as has already happened in a number of places? View quote
Andrei Sakharov
I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option. View quote
Jeph Jacques
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible! View quote
Kate Beckinsale
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The Vietnam War was raging at that particular time, so I wanted to do a positive play about a country character who was yearning for his home, as I was doing at Christmas...I drew on my experience growing up in the country - plowing mules, cropping tobacco, bootleggers, going to church. The rest was my imagination. I wanted to do something that could be performed on the streets - I love street theater. And I wanted my character to have a conscience. (Samm-Art Williams)