Moles Quotes

• I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.

  Niki Taylor

  Hurt, Growing Up, Hated

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• The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Long, Important, Unseen

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

  Gordon R. England

  Cancer, President, More Time

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• Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

  Tommy Douglas

  Ocean, Men, Air

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• Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Eagles, Doe

  'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'

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• I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

  Kathy Griffin

  Hero, Reality, Programming

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• What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Air, Nuclear

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• Glory be to God for dappled things.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Trout, Glory, Finches

  "Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

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• The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mountain, World, Today

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• All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

  Walter de La Mare

  Four, Blind, Holes

  Walter De la Mare (2007). “Down-Adown-Derry”, p.64, Juniper Grove

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• REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Nature, Stories

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.18, Penguin

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• How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, People, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal”

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• A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Men, Grace

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• But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Future, Secret, Shy

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

  Confucius

  Famous Inspirational, Men, Mountain

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• Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Garden, Atheism

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• If you would keep your soul
  From spotted sight or sound,
  Live like the velvet mole;
  Go burrow underground.

  Elinor Wylie

  Sight, Soul, Velvet

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.12, Kent State University Press

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• Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.

  Seth Godin

  Mountain, Hills, Enough

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• In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Iraq, Feet

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• I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

  Dane Cook

  Discovery, Tonight, Television

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• But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Beautiful, Dream, Struggle

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.

  Lauren Oliver

  Reflection, Mirrors, House

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

  James Taylor

  Philosophy, Mean, Night

  Song: Down In The Hole, Album: New Moon Shine, 1991

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• Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.

  Murray Rothbard

  Children, Educational, Order

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• Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august presence was very, very near.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Fall, Mean, August

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.71, Penguin

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