Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

English Writer

Madam C. J. Walker

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

American Activist

Virginia Woolf

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

British Author

Arthur Koestler

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Hungarian Novelist

Walter Bagehot

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

English Author

J Allard

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

American Scientist

Owen King

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.

American Author

Ralph W. Sockman

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

American Leader

Peter McWilliams

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

American Writer

H. G. Wells

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Use 'strew' to create a mental picture of items scattered about.

Visual Imagery

'Strew' can imply that the scattering was done with intent, not always randomly.

Intentional Action

Using 'strew' may suggest a disorganized or untidy state.

Messy Connotation

Use 'strew' to describe a widespread presence in a given area.

Ubiquitous Presence

When 'strew' is used, it often indicates a recurring or continual action.

Repeated Occurrence

Unlike the first definition, this context suggests a lack of deliberate placement.

Not Purposeful

 what kind of bag should you use? If you’ve seen the images of plastic bags strewn across the ocean, it might seem obvious that plastic is bad for the environment. Surely a paper bag or a cotton tote would be the better option. But is that really true? Each of these three materials has a unique environmental impact

Which bag should you...

 disturbing thing that I've ever seen I saw girls that had their hands bound by makeshift handcuffs huddled together and burned alive men strewn all over the village burned alive only because they were trying to protect their family the entire village lay in ashes if these photos were released to the public

Combating Darfur...

 it felt as if a shadow had fallen over the world. On the hill where his father's palace lay, he saw only a ruin strewn with weeds. His calls for his friends and family echoed from derelict walls. Horrified, Oisín rode until he came upon a group of peasants working in the fields.

The myth of Oisín and...

 Now, it's a useless hunk of metal taking up space in a valuable transportation network. And imagine international roadways all cluttered with broken down vehicles that are just getting in the way of other traffic. And imagine the debris that would be strewn everywhere

Let's clean up the space...

 my friends willing to help me right now that's huge because this job that it's doing for me is not something that I could do myself I don't own a piece of machinery I've got way too many dogs that just have dogs strewn all over the place in the woods tripping holes

Clearing the Yard PIPE Life...

 Fortunately, we find millions of their remains strewn across the permafrost buried deep in Siberia and Alaska, and we can actually go up there and actually take them out. And the preservation is, again, like those insects in, phenomenal.

Hendrik Poinar: Bring...

 are strewn throughout the body strong enough to support up to 20 times our body weight light enough to defy gravity however briefly flexible enough to absorb unfathomable impacts and connect it in such a way so as to provide a

Bare Bones PIPE National...

 strewn with these little signs of the tension between the desire to be comprehensible and the limitations of the technology available at the time something as small as the dot on an eye symbolizes how technology influences

The evolution of the...

 strewing Phaethon’s likeness in the stars. Overcome by grief, Helios had hidden himself from the sky. But he soon returned, and every day from then on, as he raced through the heavens, he greeted his son.

The tragic myth of the...

 cramped rubbish strewn cage he's he's an idols he must be around 12 up probably he was caught in the wild and in brother and he grew up in this case which we did disappear home for many years