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

  Kathy Griffin

  Hero, Reality, Programming

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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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• 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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• 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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• Glory be to God for dappled things.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Trout, Glory, Finches

  "Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wine transforms moles into eagles.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Eagles

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

  Seth Godin

  Mountain, Hills, Enough

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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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• Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Dark, Thinking, Order

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1935). “Spring Came on Forever”, p.251, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• I want to do another reality show. It's based on The Mole. It's about sexually transmitted diseases. It's called "God, I Hope That's a Mole."

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Reality

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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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• 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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