Gravel Quotes

51 Gravel quotes by 49 unique authors

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. — Dave Barry
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that… — Charles Darwin
Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling,… — Jeff Cesario
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. — Henry David Thoreau
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. — Elliott Smith
I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old came bumming around.… — Carl Panzram
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters… — Henry David Thoreau
It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier—the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit… — Lewis Hamilton
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no… — Charles Lyell
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you… — Frederick Lenz
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm
You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you… — Debby Ryan
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits… — Louis Leakey
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck… — Alec Baldwin
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next… — Jack Handey
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search… — John Denham
Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I… — John Ruskin
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it… — Richard Bach
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is… — Winston Churchill
It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is… — William Morris Hunt
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to… — Mark Haddon
You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things… — Charles Kingsley

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