Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one,… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel. — Eminem Copy Share Image
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime… — Aruna Roy Copy Share Image
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
