Digging Up Dirt Quotes

#1. That record became very key for me, not just for what it said, and for how great it was, but also because I heard other people who could make good music without being any good at music. It gave me hope.

Legs McNeil

#2. I pound the counter. "One time! A snake peed on me one time!" "That's all it takes, Snake Piss!" Saul shouts from the back. "That's all it takes," Dane says, drumming on the counter and turning to the hipsters as they approach to order.

Daniel Rodrigues-Martin

#3. Stanley spent more time pushing the wheelbarrow than digging, because he was such a slow digger. He carted away the excess dirt and dumped it into previously dug holes. He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found.

Louis Sachar

#4. I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.

Elizabeth Warren

#5. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurber

#6. That fact alone should let you know just how deep a hole I was digging. Or would that be, already have dug? Yeah, already dug. I was about halfway to China and still throwing dirt up in the air.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn't mean we aren't digging in the dirt anymore - it's just that we know better where to dig.

Sarah Parcak

#9. I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

Siri Hustvedt

#10. Like Momma says, only thing you get by digging dirt is dirty.

Jamie Farrell

#11. His father had a dream: to keep his hands forever clean. Joey wasn't clear whether his father had ever understood that it takes a lot of digging in the dirt to do that.

William H Gass

#12. Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Agatha Christie

#13. You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

Brendan Gleeson

#14. Val's answer was as out of character for him as his presence here. I don't know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. I knew that when you had fallen, the memories that charted your decline became invaluable.

Chibundu Onuzo

#16. I am filled with humidity.

Gib Lewis

#17. I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures.

Julia Sawalha

#18. Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Lewis H. Lapham

#19. Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.

Casey Renee Kiser