Digging Quotes
247 quotes by 232 authors
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
— Henri Matisse
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You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging
— Theodore Levitt
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When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
— Leonard Woolley
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The seduction of evil is precisely in that it involves us in trying to eliminate it. When your consciousness is open, any action you take…
— Thaddeus Golas
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A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he…
— Jay Leno
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Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in…
— Billy Graham
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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
— Edward de Bono
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We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
— Heinrich Schliemann
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in…
— Alice Oswald
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There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided…
— Charles Guggenheim
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To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is…
— David Blaine
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Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.
— Rumi
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If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.
— Seymour Chwast
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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
— Andy Hargreaves
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Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways,…
— Annie Proulx
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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient…
— Donald Johanson
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as…
— Ray Bradbury
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To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
— Khalil Gibran
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Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a…
— Christopher Kimball
Who Wrote These Digging Quotes
232 authors contributed a total of 247 Digging Quotes, led by these top contributors: