Shovels Quotes

87 quotes by 79 authors

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to… — Hal Borland
A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't… — Marge Piercy
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. — Aldo Leopold
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them… — Carl Sandburg
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. — Donald T. Regan
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property… — James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde
I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not… — Ronald Reagan
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he… — Aldo Leopold
I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau
You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I… — Loretta Lynn
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. — Elbert Hubbard
When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel. — Shane Claiborne
If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. — Lucky Luciano
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to… — Frankie Boyle
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. — Peter Lynch
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements… — Aruna Roy
It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels. — Josh Williams

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