As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long as you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.
But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.
Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.
TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY,
AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.
Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
I am a farmer singing at the plow
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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.
Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.
Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
The arts of building from the bee receive;
Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
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.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
I grew up in Appalachia, and I've seen people milk cows and slaughter pigs and plow with a big-footed horse. It's not like I was a city child.
Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!
Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .
If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.
During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.
A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.
[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.
The cut worm forgives the plow.
As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.
We must plow through the whole of language.
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what's going on inside them. So I don't really mind it. There's a lot of it online, there's a load of it on the roads, but I just plow on regardless.
You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.
You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.
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