Quotes About Pumping

Then came cheap oil, electricity, and the motorized centrifugal pump. Finally freed from all constraints but nature's (irrigation would last only as long as the finite aquifer held out), the farmers began pumping in the finest California tradition—which is to say, as if tomorrow would never come.

blood pumping from his neck like water from a hose.

He has a heart so huge, it's kept pumping, kept going long past endurance—even though life has bruised it to a pulp.