Furrow Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only…
— Pablo Neruda
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,…
— Louis Agassiz
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It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and…
— Rose Macaulay
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The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you…
— Paul Heiney
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When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow…
— Dallas Lore Sharp
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It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the…
— Patsy Mink
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Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that…
— Questlove
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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint…
— T.H. White
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It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
— Kirby Larson
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...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...
— John M. Geddes
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Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage…
— Hugh Hammond Bennett
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The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface…
— Louis Agassiz
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I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the…
— Mortimer Collins
Who Wrote These Furrow Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Furrow Quotes, led by these top contributors: