Best Shovel Quotes
94 Shovel quotes by 82 unique authors
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The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating.…
— Thomas Friedman
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It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on…
— Gary Snyder
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The shovel is the brother to the gun.
— Carl Sandburg
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At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe…
— Reince Priebus
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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
— Robert Ballard
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In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot…
— Randy Travis
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Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
— Eminem
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Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.
— Clay Walker
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The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for…
— William J. Clinton
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Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
— Samuel Lover
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In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
— Marcel Duchamp
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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…
— Jeff Daniels
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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…
— Rahm Emanuel
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We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
— Howard Hughes
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My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
— Gary Johnson
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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…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the…
— Jackson Pollock
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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
— Mark Twain
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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…
— Wendell Berry
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The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant…
— Hilary Mantel
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones;…
— Margaret Atwood
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
— Margaret Atwood
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I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if…
— Michael Ondaatje
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