Chopping Wood Quotes

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.

I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.