Plough Quotes

62 Plough quotes by 56 unique authors

We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only â€˜naturalsâ€™ can acquire certain skills. We imagine that we… — Robert Twigger
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda
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
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels. — Silvia Cartwright
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
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
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
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands. — Publilius Syrus
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
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
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo. — Noel Coward
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth. — John Ray
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
"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
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
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. — Francois Rabelais
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
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

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