Plough Quotes
62 Plough quotes by 56 unique authors
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We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We imagine that we…
— Robert Twigger
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Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
— Silvia Cartwright
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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
— Chris Priestley
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It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with…
— Augustus De Morgan
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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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They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
— Publilius Syrus
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The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
— Chief Joseph
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.
— Noel Coward
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He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
— John Ray
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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,…
— Abraham Cowley
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Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
— Osip Mandelstam
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The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
— Francois Rabelais
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You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
— Philip Massinger
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No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this…
— Sathya Sai Baba
Who Wrote These Plough Quotes
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