Shovels Quotes - Page 3

• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Work, Body, Plant

  "Grass" l. 1 (1918)

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• Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

  Samuel Lover

  Matrimony

  Samuel Lover (1858). “Songs and Ballads ... Fourth edition”, p.92

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• Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

  Hakim Bey

  Baby, Fire, Envy

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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

  New York, Snow, Broken

  Marcel Duchamp (1994). “Duchamp: Passim : a Marcel Duchamp Anthology”, Craftsman House

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• 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 whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Beach, Children, Lying

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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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

  Lakes, Spoons, Breakfast

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.48, Yearling

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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 you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

  Daniel Handler

  Opposites, Trying, Want

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• 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 mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Eye, Justice

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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• 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 high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Years, Two

  "Grass" l. 7 (1918)

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• 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 as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.

  James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

  Country, Men, Moral

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• Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Cutting, Years, Together

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

  James M. Buchanan

  People, Different, Today

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• I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

  Garry Winogrand

  Tired, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

  Malachy McCourt

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that shovels sand from a river and sells it. This will always be true of financial companies, including ones run by governments. If you want accurate numbers from financial companies, you're in the wrong world.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Mistake, Government

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• If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

  Janet Macunovich

  Garden, Hands, Watches

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• I just implore local music fans to get out on a regular basis to support the local bands that you like. If you find what the corporate record industry shovels out as distasteful, prove that there's a demand for something different and better. I don't expect everyone else to do the two or three nights a week that I did at my peak, but two or three shows a month isn't much of a burden for true music fans!

  Larry Howes

  Night, Two, Support

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• You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

  Robert Ballard

  Arizona, Gettysburg, Belt Buckles

  “Erin Burnett Outfront”, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

  Djuna Barnes

  Boston, Color, Mind

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.

  Paul Caponigro

  Running, Art, Inspire

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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 dig out of the hole.

  Randy Travis

  Letting Go, Dark, Reality

  Song: The Hole

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• Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

  Edna Ferber

  Nerves, Use, Way

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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. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Smart, Science

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• 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 that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

  Aruna Roy

  Writing, People, India

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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