Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain
— Jack Kerouac
Sublime Mow quotations
I never dreamt of being in the movies.
I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.
If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn;
color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
There are no innocents in Gaza. Mow them down kill the Gazans without thought or mercy.
The thicker the hay; the easier mowed.
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees.
You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations.
Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.
I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor.
If it's not right, I do it again.
When I was a kid, I was always around boys.
I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.
I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either.
I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!
Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards.
You might be a redneck if it's easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it.
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods.
Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.
This generation should entertain this generation.
It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
Many of the forests of the world are being mowed down.
.. But the rest of the world isn't going to say, "Okay, we'll save our forests, but you Americans can keep driving all your cars!" There has to be give and take.
One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
Good people don't spend their time being good.
Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.