Digging Quotes - Page 11

• Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Self Confidence, Library

  Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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• On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Horse, Kindness, Gay

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• I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

  Dennis Miller

  Nice, House, Littles

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

  Ramez Naam

  Aquifers, Years, Water

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

  Geoffrey Hinton

  Misuse, Courses

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Digging A Hole, Embarrassment

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  Mike Norton

  Thanksgiving, Running, Selfish

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• Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Garden, Compassion

  "Hyakujō: The Everest of Zen with Bashō's Haikus". Book by Osho, 1989.

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• The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

  Gerard Cox

  People, Music Is

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• Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

  Mat Kearney

  Weakness, Married, Humans

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Garbage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Lying, Tunnels

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Golf, Years

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

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• Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

  Philip Schultz

  Emotional, Expression, Order

  Source: poems.com

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• When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.

  Jared Harris

  Drama, Fall, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Real, Land

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Military, War, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Able, Stuff

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

  Liam Neeson

  Real, Thinking, Luck

  "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.

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• I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

  Susan Orlean

  Dedication, Tunnels, Vines

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

  Emily Bronte

  Hard Work, Air, Coffins

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.571, Penguin

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• Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Life, Finding Yourself, Gold

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• We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Garden, Hands, Hoe

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• If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.

  Seymour Chwast

  Digging A Hole, Helping, Holes

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