Wheelbarrows Quotes

• Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

  Billy Graham

  Want, Fronts, Conscience

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Understanding, Machines

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

  John Green

  Rain, White, Water

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• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  Hal Borland

  Work, Humble, Airplane

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Four, Might

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• I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

  William Goldman

  Mean, Emotional Outbursts, Would Be

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them.

  Henry George

  Running, Book, Men

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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• Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

  Jay Asher

  Blood, Lust, Black

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

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• You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

  Martin Caidin

  Funny, Legs, Aviation

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• My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tombstone, Grandmother, People

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.

  Monica Dickens

  Wise, Horse, Feet

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• I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

  Wilford Brimley

  Gambling, Games, Cards

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• Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Light, Would Be, Top Gear

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• The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Government, People

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• It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Years, Editors, Rejection

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• Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

  John Granger

  Love, Loyalty, Sacrifice

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• They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

  William S. Burroughs

  Science, People, Ego

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, White, Water

  "The Red Wheelbarrow" l. 1 (1923)

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• I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

  William Goldman

  Mean, Emotional, Would Be

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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