Agricultural Tools Quotes

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

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.

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.