Burrowing Quotes

#1. ...I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its mother or if it was like a chigger depositing its larvae underneath the skin of my ankles.

Jason Porter

#2. Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

George P. Shultz

#3. Like a butterfly burrowing from its chrysalis, so shall you find your wings, if you only take the time to find yourself.

L.J. Vanier

#4. Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

Lawrence Durrell

#5. [the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all ... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.

Jack Kerouac

#6. Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.

Zadie Smith

#7. I threw myself on my father, burrowing my face into his chest. "Whom do I need to kill?" he asked in a voice dripping with frost.

Eve Langlais

#8. Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

Howard Sasportas

#9. How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

Rosie Thomas

#10. But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.

Emily Carroll

#11. There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

Angela Thirkell

#12. If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

Rachel Carson

#14. But when children continued to disappear every four years, the village shifted their attention to burrowing bears, then phantom bears, then bears in disguise . . . until it became clear it wasn't bears at all.

Soman Chainani

#15. Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Dan Quisenberry

#16. A nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear

Joseph Heller

#17. But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Jeb Bush

#18. It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.

Matt Haig

#19. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary

H.R. Giger

#20. You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue

Donika Kelly

#21. I'll shoot," she murmured against his rock-solid pecs, burrowing the muzzle of her Glock into his abdomen.
"Go ahead, sweetheart. Add it to the tally for the night. It'll sting like a bitch, but I guarantee it won't kill me.

Zoe Forward

#22. You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid.

Iyanla Vanzant

#23. Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

Colin Hay

#24. Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Bruce Campbell

#25. Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.

Danny Gregory

#26. I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

Daniel Hannan

#27. It's a lonely thing carrying the body of someone dead and loved. Like a vase you know will never again hold flowers. I

Pierce Brown

#28. The ears are the last feature to age.

Malcolm De Chazal

#29. Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

Hugh B. Brown

#30. Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.

M.F. Moonzajer

#31. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Thiruvalluvar

#32. It is only when we let go of knowing what we think we know that new knowing can enter our lives.

Maria Parkinson