Shovel Quotes

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. (Margaret Atwood)
When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs,he forgot the copperheads and the assassin . . .in the dust, in the cool tombs. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one. View quote
Aldo Leopold
My final word: don't follow your dreams... chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream! View quote
Maureen Johnson
I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it. View quote
Wendell Berry
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. View quote
Donald T. Regan
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time. View quote
Janet Street-Porter
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. View quote
Jeff Daniels
Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another. (Jean Chrétien)
This all came about through the discovery of a single, isolated case of mad cow disease in one Alberta cow on May 20th. The farmer - I think he was a Louisiana fish farmer who knew nothing about cattle ranching. I guess any self-respecting rancher would have shot, shovelled and shut up, but he didn't do that. Instead he took it to an abattoir and it was discovered after testing in both Winnipeg and the U. K. that this older cow had mad cow disease. View quote
Ralph Klein
A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation) View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out. View quote
William S. Burroughs
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. View quote
Lucky Luciano
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests - if you try to feed it with a shovel you get bad results. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. View quote
Rahm Emanuel
American doesn't need any more professional political punks in D. C., unless you believe sticking a red hot crowbar in your eye is an excellent treatment for cataracts. It's professional political punks who have created the pus-filled infected wound of fundamental transformation, not Donald Trump. They are the ones calling for a bigger bureaucratic shovel for the hole they have already dug, not Donald Trump. They are the ones who have lied to Americans or intentionally hidden the truth from us, not Donald Trump. It's professional politicians who are the enemy of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not Donald Trump. View quote
Ted Nugent
To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate. (Andrew Marvell)
I was thinking the other day about a time machine...and the first thing I thought of doing if I actually had a time machine, is that I would go back in time to about 1993 or '94, and kill George Lucas with a shovel. View quote
Patton Oswalt
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. View quote
Jackson Pollock
You cannot place a mother breastfeeding her baby on an equal footing with men. You cannot make women work in the same jobs as men do, as in communist regimes. You cannot give them a shovel and tell them to do their work. This is against their delicate nature. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs. View quote
Samuel Lover