Best Shovels Sayings
87 Shovels quotes by 78 unique authors
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Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
— John Wanamaker
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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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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or…
— George Clooney
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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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A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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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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For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient…
— J M Coetzee
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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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