Plow Quotations

A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.

The region leans too hard on the plow of agriculture to pull its economy, when agriculture is a troubled economic sector.

We won't be able to have this fire contained until we can plow a line around it. We've got all kinds of problems with the blow-down from Ivan. It's slowing us down.

To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

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.

Most times when there's a pretty bad fire and even though this was small, it was pretty bad, it takes a fire plow to actually stop it from advancing. That was our job. The fire departments did a good job in keeping it off houses and residences, so it was a joint project.

I wouldn't be surprised if the institutions, such as pensions and endowments that have been plowing so much money into emerging-market funds, will see this pull back as an opportunity to plow more in. It doesn't feel like the pull back will continue for too long before investors will again rediscover strong emerging-market growth.

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

Otherwise, there are landowners in this county who would plow to their house all year long. And they have the resources to do that.

Like unhitching a horse from a plow and winning the Derby.

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

We don't close streets in Sioux Falls very often. We're having to plow routes over and over. As soon as we plow, snow drifts fall immediately behind them.

Where else can you strip down a car, plow it into other cars driven by people you don't even know, and not get a ticket? ... It's just fun.

We have crews that are standing by 24 hours a day, we have a loader parked around the corner for quick response and our plow trucks are always on the road.

We'll just continue to plow away. And maybe some good things will happen.

Within this thin wafer of bread is caught up symbolically the labor of plow and of sowing, of harvest and threshing, of milling, of packing, of transportation, of financing, of selling and packaging. Man's industrial life is all there.

This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.

We just plow through it all. We put the blinders on and just go. We don't slow down for trends or what's not hip anymore. We just stay true to ourselves.

We had the wrong attitude to start the game. They play a heavy game, they play an old NHL game and we wanted to play around the game instead of plow through it. When you give a team that's in a desperate state like Toronto some hope, they're going to follow through.

Very mild. Very, very mild over previous years. And that doesn't include any overtime costs or any of the repair bills from the plow trucks.

Every year, there are people who drive into the back of our plows. Motorists who tailgate a plow can find themselves lost in a snow cloud. They can't see the road or the plow in front of them in time to stop.

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

You've just got to plow forward. You're obviously making it too hard on yourself. Just lower your standards a little bit so you can inch forward, and then once you inch forward, you can raise your standards back up. Sometimes we think we're writing stuff in stone. We're not.

A lot of on-line comics have very involved storylines, and even though the archive is online, it is faster to flip open a book and read than plow through an electronic archive.

You can't just go out and plow lizard habitat into the ground.

It sounded like a plow scraping the road. Nothing exploded or anything. I heard the crunching coming through the trees.

Each plow has about 40 to 60 lane miles to cover, so it takes about 2 hours to make each run.

There was a loud noise - I thought it was a plow coming through - then a flash of light, and then the big stuff started coming down.

The message that we'd like to get out now is that we have 3,600 plows on the roads, so if people can stay off the roads to let the plow drivers to their work, that would be best.

I killed my first mule at 10. Plowed him to death. The sad part is, after the mule died, I had an acre and a half to do, and I had to pull the plow my own self.

I know we have been awarded monies to buy a new plow truck. The figure is $393,000, which is a pretty good chunk of change. That's 95 percent grant funded.

The city's inability to plow side streets has created public health and safety concerns in many neighborhoods due to the lack of access for police, fire and other emergency vehicles,

The city is giving us what amounts to $60,000 for acquisition and repairs (per house). So if it costs us $100,000 and we borrow $40,000 for purchase and repairs, then we sell it at fair market value for $85,000. We pay that $40,000 back and we've got another $45,000 and plow it back into another house.

One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to

It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.