Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into…

— Henry David Thoreau

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel,…

— Henry David Thoreau

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close

“That corner in the drive, too, where the trees encroach upon. . . the gravel, is not a place in which to pause, not…

— Daphne du Maurier

About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying…

— Charles Darwin

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held…

— Aaron Schock

I am manageable. I, you know, it'll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time and I…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut.

— Jim Harbaugh

This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on…

— Barry Keoghan

With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on his bicycle,…

— Craig Kilborn

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass…

— Charles Baudelaire

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between…

— Bharati Mukherjee

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the…

— Isak Dinesen

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and…

— John Ruskin

Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert