Top 61 Burrow Quotes
#1. burro, burrow: A /burro/ is an ass. A /burrow/ is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
United Press International
#2. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#3. They chose the one nearest a gold-coloured cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at The Burrow.
J.K. Rowling
#4. A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.
Fred Reed
#5. My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion ... Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.
Evelyn Waugh
#6. Before too much longer I'll forget her minute imperfections. That's what you end up missing the most, those little faults. They burrow under your skin. Become endearing in retrospect.
Tracy Guzeman
#7. One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.
Rudyard Kipling
#8. You have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help ... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
Jane Hamilton
#9. They didn't try to burrow into you. They were just crawling. It's what maggots do. They crawl." "You don't know anything." "Hard to argue with that, Commander," says Howler with a laugh in his voice.
Susan Ee
#10. And at times I murmured the token phrase to the doctor, 'When can I go home?' knowing that home was the place where I least desired to be. There they would watch me for signs of abnormality, like ferrets around a rabbit burrow waiting for the rabbit to appear.
Janet Frame
#11. What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow?
Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings.
A life made of air
Jim Krusoe
#12. If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.
Rick Riordan
#13. To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
Clifton Fadiman
#14. All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,
Gregory Maguire
#15. Hunger.
It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought. After three full days of not eating, it felt like a vicious, gnawing, dull-clawed animal was trying to burrow its way out of his stomach. He felt every second of every minute of every hour.
James Dashner
#16. Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#17. Then, at the last moment, I am forced to admit to myself that I was right after all,
and that it was really impossible to go down into the burrow without exposing the
thing I love best, for a little while at least, to all my enemies, on the ground, in the
trees, in the air.
Franz Kafka
#18. Wind whips under my skirt. My tights are no protection against the frigid air, so I burrow deeper into my new velvet jacket, slightly remorseful for not wearing something more substantial. If I freeze to death, I just have to remember it's for the sake of fashion.
Michelle Warren
#19. Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.
Michele Jennae
#20. This is why being broken is so beautiful: being broken means you have cracks for love and light to shine through, gaps for the Godiverse to burrow and bloom, space to move from who you are to who you will become.
Reba Riley
#21. Love ... is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.
Edna O'Brien
#24. I rubbed at my temple, where the zit was gone. It still hurt a little , though, deep under the skin. I hate those zits that burrow underground. You think they've vanished, but no, they just barricade themselves right next to the bone and hurt.
Lili St. Crow
#25. All I want to do is burrow into his arms and know that everything is still good between us.
Stephanie Perkins
#26. If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.
Elinor Wylie
#27. You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
Martial
#28. If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you.
Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.
Rona V Flynn
#29. Olive thought she had forgotten what pain could be. She was a railway tunnel in which a battering train had come to a fiery halt. She was a burrow in which a creature had wedged itself and could go neither forwards nor back.
A.S. Byatt
#30. Sometimes he'd dream of hunting for Adam the Usurper twenty years in the future, or of Doctor Simmons sending Aero to burrow into his head and steal his most secret thoughts and desires.
Alesha Escobar
#31. Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.
Donald O'Donovan
#32. I tell you, old friend, I'd rather be stuck here in a Strander burrow than blowing smoke rings in Glipwood, where the Fangs spit and howl and kill our spirits. At least we're here because we choose to be. We're here out of bravery and not cowardice.
Andrew Peterson
#33. If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story
Jonathan Gottschall
#34. In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Karl Shapiro
#35. Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
Timothy Noah
#36. 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
#37. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world
Stefan Zweig
#38. We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. Beautiful and courageous flowers don't grow over night... They start as a seed in the ground. Within the depths of a dark place they burrow deep and with water and sunlight they arise to break through the soil and slowly grow into what they wish to become.
Leona Keyoko Pink
#41. The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
Jack Hanna
#42. Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.
Emlyn Chand
#43. When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. Beautiful. Now I have to burrow like a groundhog into Mason's basement to the same room where he summoned those things to take me Downtown. Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.
Richard Kadrey
#45. I'm sick and tired of it," he said, "It's the same all the time. 'These are my claws, so this is my cowslip." 'These are my teeth, so this is my burrow.' I'll tell you, if I ever get into the Owsla, I'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency.
Richard Adams
#46. The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.
Steven Galloway
#47. They're still warm, and I burrow into my pillows, catching the faint scent of rosewater. Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world.
Rae Carson
#48. Because I love you and I can't get enough of you. That emotion ran deeper and deeper, like a river than had reached open plains, soft earth, and could burrow deeper now, build more force. There was no sense anymore that it would end, had to end, was better if it ended.
Aleksandr Voinov
#49. The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.
Pete Munro
#50. In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams
Scott Lynch
#51. It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
Nick Hornby
#52. Still deep I burrow, waiting for tomorrow. Closed off, I bear. The open elements don't care. Laid here in this nest, dormant now I rest. Aching to live and roam, though still burrowed in my tomb. When time brings my spring, maybe I'll rise like a king.
-Anonymous
Linda Kage
#53. I'm unhappy doing just mole stuff. What's wrong with me? Why couldn't I look forward to digging my own burrow?
Mary T. Kincaid
#54. Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy,
Sharan Burrow
#55. Oscar Otero Aguilar, 21, of Mexico City, Mexico, accidentally shot himself in the head while posing for a "selfie" with a loaded gun.
Benjamin Burrow
#56. Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.
J.A. Burrow
#57. Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.
Sharan Burrow
#58. Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
Sharan Burrow
#60. Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.
Sharan Burrow
#61. I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.
Taj Burrow
