Sow
To sew. See Sew.
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
A sow bug.
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
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Sow Quotations
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran
If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
Joel Osteen
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Robert Collier
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler
During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.
Rick Warren
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
Henry Van Dyke
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Dennis Weaver
I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Jude Law
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
Norman Ralph Augustine
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Lawrence Lessig
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
Richard Le Gallienne
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
Miguel Indurain
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
Islom Karimov
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
Karl Shapiro
You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
Scott Reed
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom
I've sown all the oats I want to sow.
Stephanie Zimbalist
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Sow Translations
sow in Dutch is uitzaaien
sow in Italian is seminare
sow in Portuguese is porca
sow in Spanish is cerda
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