Digging Quotes

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

You dig in and you find something.

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.

We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.