Garrison Keillor

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

American Writer

Henry Paulson

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.

American Public Servant

Phil Robertson

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.

American Celebrity

Glen Campbell

I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man.

American Musician

Isaac Hanson

If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

Saint Bernard

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

Saint

Munshi Premchand

If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.

Indian Writer

Edwin Markham

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

American Poet

Josh Blue

It's a hard road to hoe, doing one-nighters. I remember doing VFWs in Madison, Wisconsin. Those were pretty rough shows.

B. B. King

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Used mainly when discussing gardening or farming activities.

Gardening Context

Implies the physical action of pushing or pulling through soil.

Physical Movement

Often associated with weed removal besides soil preparation.

Weed Control

Indicates an action that might take a period of time to complete.

Action Duration

When used as a verb, it's often related to regular agricultural maintenance.

Agricultural Practice

It is offensive and disrespectful when used to describe a person.

Offensive Usage

This meaning of 'hoe' is informal and not appropriate for formal contexts.

Colloquial Language

The slang term can reflect gender bias, often targeting women.

Gender Bias

 There's just one many smallholder farmers lack access to basic tools and knowledge. Currently, they take a little bit of saved food grain from the prior year, they plant it in the ground and they till it with a manual hand hoe. These are tools and techniques that date to the Bronze Age,

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 women dying for every man and I would propose with the better longevity that women have overall that women probably should theoretically do better if we could just get treated so this is where we are but we have a long row to hoe

The single biggest...

 of the food that the world eats and the problem is that they often go hungry they grow the food the world eats but they go hungry and there are a few reasons for this first these farmers are using a hoe and their manual labor to

Helping small-scale...

 China has many fewer choices and a much harder row to hoe. If you look at China, and you ask yourself why has coal been important to it, you have to remember what China's done. China brought people to power, not power to people.

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 for refurbishing now the crew can focus on getting the replacement thruster back into the hall this is a critical moment the lines from the winches on the Boulder's deck are now connected through the hoe and onto

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 I'm serious man uh how that rock breaks up that's minerals you're the cook Stone Soup is a concoction made up of a stone and whatever other edible plants you can find find a on the hoe don't you think

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 which means "community works for the community." Hundreds of people came with shovels and hoes, and we excavated that hill in half the time and half the cost of that bulldozer.

Architecture that's...

 Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture. Crops and livestock are being brought to market. In the city, builders raise a tower.

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 150 mile Red Desert to hoe back mule deer migration Yellowstone is this incredible icon for protected areas globally because it was the first

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 Now, instead of crude tools made of sticks and stones, Israel now had iron plows, and sickles, and hoes and military weapons.

Hoe

Gardening Context

Physical Movement

Weed Control

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