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Quotes About Plowing

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I'll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can't be articulated. Only caricatured.
~ Dave Eggers
Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through a blizzard.
~ Dean Koontz
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
~ Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
~ Frederick Douglass
Let us never forget that the Husbandman is never so near the land as when he is plowing it, the very time when we are tempted to think He hath forsaken us. His plowing is a proof that He thinks you of value, and worth chastening: for He does not waste His plowing on the barren sand. He will not plow continually, but only for a time, and for a definite purpose. Soon, aye soon, we shall, through these painful processes and by His gentle showers of grace, become His fruitful land.
~ Unknown
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
~ Genesis 45:6
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
~ 1 Kings 19:19
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
~ Job 1:14
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
~ Psalm 141:7
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
~ Hosea 10:11