Best Shovel Sayings
94 Shovel quotes by 82 unique authors
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I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
— Scott Westerfeld
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If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to…
— Charlaine Harris
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Tell you what," I said. "After the testing after the Demon Days, when things settle down -" "Things won't settle down." "- I'm going to…
— Rick Riordan
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After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of…
— Wilson Rawls
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Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake…
— Louise Penny
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There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair.…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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You're beautiful, every part of you. I love your hair, the way it looks, the way it feels. I love touching it, smelling it. I…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be…
— Nora Roberts
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Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
— Jill Shalvis
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This time is difficult, wait for me: we will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will…
— Pablo Neruda
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Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!
— Terry Pratchett
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I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?"…
— Charlaine Harris
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Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with…
— Clint Eastwood
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My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that…
— Maureen Johnson
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Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one…
— Jack Kerouac
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is…
— Amelia Earhart
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If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must…
— Shel Silverstein
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,…
— Aldo Leopold
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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
— Louis Sachar
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All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit…
— Daniel Handler
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than…
— Alan Huffman
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