Plowing Quotes (page 3)

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• good
• work
• people

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. William Feather

• students
• opportunity
• time

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. Arne Duncan

• freedom
• men
• ups

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass

• music
• personality
• personal

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

• today
• evening
• hand

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

• look
• farm

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower

• speeches
• field
• useful

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field. Jim Hunt

• car
• moments
• look

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. Evan Davis

• children
• humble
• traitor

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. Thaddeus Stevens

• strong
• chicken
• were

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? Seymoure Cray

• end
• hand
• rowing

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. Alice Paul

• grandparents
• small
• grandfather

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me. Forest Whitaker

• chance
• moving
• courage

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. Terri Clark

• keep going
• footing
• simply

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. George Lucas

• true
• determination
• encouragement

She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model. Molly Shannon