Digging Quotes - Page 2

• 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 plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Strong, Class, Economy

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

  Denis Healey

  Digging A Hole, Law, Firsts

  "The old bruiser who remained the boy next door". Interview with William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

  Denis Healey

  Funny, Life, Law

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• Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

  Seamus Heaney

  Gun, Thumbs, Squat

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Death of a Naturalist”, Faber & Faber

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• I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

  Katherine Heigl

  Want, Graves, Persons

  "Katherine Heigl admits she has image problem" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 8, 2010.

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• There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Tunnels

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.

  Thubten Chodron

  Patience, Weed, Buddhist

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• We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

  Heinrich Schliemann

  Past, Imagine, Relics

  Leo Deuel, Heinrich Schliemann (1977). “Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: a documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

  Mariah Carey

  Positive Thinking, Tunnels, Light

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• It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Men, Trying, Watches

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• I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

  Sarah Zettel

  Fall, Character, Piano

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• How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, War, People

  Radio broadcast, 27 Sept. 1938

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• There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

  Charles Guggenheim

  Tunnels, Slave Labor, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Memories, Talking, Looks

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

  Mike Todd, Jr.

  Squares, Spirals, Parliament

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• Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

  Rumi

  Water, Wells

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• When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

  Leonard Woolley

  Business, Egypt, Games

  Sir Leonard Woolley (1920). “Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook”, London, Milford

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• A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Tunnels, Snow

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• As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

  Donald Johanson

  Opportunity, Hiking, Numbers

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

  Bo Gritz

  Team, Laos, Bones

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• When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

  Tammara Webber

  Inspirational, Cowboy, Digging A Hole

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.521, Tammara Webber

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• The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

  Joseph Conrad

  Smell, Sight, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2004). “Heart of Darkness”, p.62, Variocity

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• When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

  Harvey Mackay

  Thinking, Too Late, Thirsty

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• No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

  Mae West

  Jewels, Gold, May

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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