Jerry Spinelli

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.

American Author

Kate Beckinsale

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

English Actress

George Orwell

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

British Author

Andrew Taylor Still

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

American Scientist

Augusten Burroughs

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.

American Writer

Abraham Maslow

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

American Psychologist

Ernest Gaines

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Katharine Hepburn

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.

American Actress

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

American President

Sojourner Truth

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

American Activist

Primarily used for farming activities, evokes rural life imagery.

Agricultural Term

Often found in history or geography textbooks describing old farming techniques.

Historical device

Verb form; talk about the physical act of preparing the soil.

Farming Action

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe any thorough preparation.

Metaphors

Conveys the image of struggling or working hard in a task.

Effort Imagery

Often implies continued, determined progress against challenges.

Perseverance

Expresses the depth of investment or commitment to a project.

Financial Commitment

Used in an entrepreneurial or business setting to discuss funding.

Business Context

Informal British usage, equivalent to failing something.

British Slang

Commonly heard in schools or universities in the UK context.

Education Setting

 plough the mother of Agriculture which turns the soil but has been proven to be a very important source of degrading carbon the largest source of carbon emissions in the world water scarcity loss of biodiversity this is copying nature with minimum disturbance this is a technology that is similar to the

Resilient people,...

 and interviewed people in offices and facilities all over the city, and I learned a lot, but I was still an outsider. I needed to go deeper. So I took the job as a sanitation worker. I didn't just ride in the trucks now. I drove the trucks. And I operated the mechanical brooms and I plowed the snow.

What I discovered in New...

 people store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet so for that they are very important for the global climate regulation the peatland should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been plowed through the peat lines are very

Here, Cutting Down...

 The good life that we desire will not fall like manna from heaven. My parents did not erect a block apartment by wishing and dreaming. They worked hard, they failed, they tried again. They toiled with rolled-up sleeves, with their hands deep in debt, they plowed ahead,

Why I choose humanism...

 and this table was in my grandfather's kitchen. And we'd come in from playing, he'd come in from plowing and working, and we'd sit around that table every night. And as I grew up, I heard so much knowledge and so many insights and so much wisdom

John Hunter: Teaching...

 The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed

How to use rhetoric to...

 ice-free land on the planet is taken over by agriculture worldwide pastures take up twelve point nine million square miles twice as much as cropland it's really vast so we did this we got the plow we transformed the planet it's the

From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...

 its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.

The myth of the Sampo—...

 well versus look elsewhere for meals using their green tusks to plow into the soft underwater terrain to extract claims worms and other tasty morsels and deep within the heart of the arctic

Arctic PIPE Exploring Oceans

 where it's too steep to plow this is the badgers refuge from the modern world it's where they live as they have always done

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