Nobody will plough the land except its cows.
A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.
Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in...
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries ...
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.
A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.
We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.
A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.
