Top 100 Ditch Quotes
#1. Follow your heart; you will fall in love but not in ditch.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.
Myles Munroe
#3. Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Edna Ferber
#4. I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.
Bill Engvall
#5. 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
#6. She sees washing lines and women squatting by a stream, and the creaking ropes of a swing beneath a big tree, and a big dog, cowering from the taunts of the village boys, and a hawk-nosed man digging a ditch, shirt plastered to his back with sweat, and a veiled woman bent over a cooking fire.
Khaled Hosseini
#7. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#8. Lead 'em around and around,' said Joad. "Sling 'em in the irrigation ditch. Tell 'em they'll burn in hell if they don't think like you. What the hell you want to lead 'em someplace for? Jus' lead 'em.
John Steinbeck
#10. The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.
Kieran Culkin
#11. Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.
Alice Cooper
#12. At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.
Hilary Mantel
#13. The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, "Pray, which leg goes after which?" This worked his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run.
Alan W. Watts
#14. The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
Nate Powell
#15. Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.
Johnny Paycheck
#16. If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.
Sun Tzu
#17. If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you
Mahalia Jackson
#18. ...drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart...
J.M. Synge
#19. To become truly unmistakable I have to be willing to ditch the map, travel without a guidebook, and see where it leads me.
Srinivas Rao
#20. It's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to realize they'd alienated the entire world.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#21. I could just hear my mom now, You know those old candy cigarettes are bad for you. Next thing you know, you'll be drinking alcohol, and they'll find you dead in a ditch somewhere. I'll never be able to show my face in this town again.
K. Martin Beckner
#22. You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
John Mellencamp
#24. The world needs ditch diggers, too.
Ted Knight
#25. Girl rabbits in an' tells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day.
John Steinbeck
#26. I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
#28. Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back - throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion - and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?
William Thrasher
#30. Don't you remember? We swore never to go to these things without each other."
"That was second grade, Lisa."
"Like that makes it okay to ditch a pinkie swear?
Cecily White
#31. How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it.
Christine Caine
#32. Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Dan Buettner
#33. From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.
Franz Kafka
#34. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
#35. Maneuvered the bike off the road near a ditch and cut the engine.
Faith Hunter
#36. I was once more struck by the truth of the ancient saying: Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#37. I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?
Chris Grabenstein
#38. Christ, we've only been here for five minutes. It's like being stuck in the Tardis. Time has lost all meaning." He turned away to ditch his cocktail glass, thus missing Lainie's gobsmacked expression. A Doctor Who reference from her second-least-favorite person? Wonders never ceased.
Lucy Parker
#39. Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Thomas McGuane
#40. I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.
Wendy Mass
#41. No dead people beyond this door,' " he read aloud from beyond the door. " 'And, yes, if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you're dead. You're not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it, and stay the hell out of my bathroom.
Darynda Jones
#42. Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.
Don Swann II
#43. Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!
Sarah Harmer
#44. You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander.
Joseph Heller
#45. A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil
Peter Ackroyd
#46. Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self.
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me ... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb
#48. Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I'm waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I'll never know.
Marguerite Duras
#49. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.
Megan Whalen Turner
#50. I don't see why she didn't ditch both of them. Like being single is terminal
J. Cassidy
#51. If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections ... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.
Newt Gingrich
#52. In life we come across people who ditch us, break us. But we still continue to trust. We are scared of getting hurt again but we still trust, still share and still open our hearts to them. Why? Why do we trust even after knowing that people change?
Anonymous
#53. My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
Twyla Tharp
#54. In mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#55. Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch,
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which ...
William Butler Yeats
#56. Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.
Rachel Vincent
#57. 12 Things To Ditch For A Great Day
Blame
Guilt
Worry
Regret
Resentment
Entitlement
Self-pity
Laziness
Negative attitude
Fear of embarrassment
Urge to one-up others
Your comfort zone
Charles F. Glassman
#58. Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.
Dave Barry
#59. I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson
#60. As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
Philip Pullman
#61. My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
Kerry Greenwood
#62. Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.
Barack Obama
#63. It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually tend to ditch their female counterparts in little little matters and get things their way.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#64. Not like you have anything to lose," Em added, coming up beside us. "Find Buck, then we'll ditch this place. I'm ready for a three-way with Ben and Jerry
Joanna Wylde
#65. ... Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink. - The Narrator.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#66. Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.
Louise Rennison
#67. If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.
Calvin Coolidge
#68. I've spent the last two hours worried that you were bleeding to death in a ditch," Evie continued. "Now that I know you're okay, I just want you to be bleeding to death in a ditch."
"Aww, Lamb Chop, you missed me.
Libba Bray
#69. There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.
Angelica Hopes
#70. ...I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a vent, a ditch swarming with worms, a suffocating trap....
Peter Cellensis
#71. I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. I love you, Hermione," said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily.
Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let Lavender hear you saying that."
"I won't," said Ron into his hands. "Or maybe I will ... then she'll ditch me ...
J.K. Rowling
#73. Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
Richard Leakey
#74. You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You will not be defeated by a ditch.
Nick Lake
#75. I'm no mathematics whizz, but even I know that when the variables start piling up, it's time to ditch the equation and see if you can find a cheat sheet.
David E. Manuel
#76. We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.
Hillary Clinton
#77. It's healthy to ditch class now and then. To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.
Stephenie Meyer
#78. But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.
Yiyun Li
#79. To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas.
Harshit Walia
#80. If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r'asscloth mouth
Marlon James
#81. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
Edna Ferber
#82. There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
William III Of England
#83. You think Candy Land is real?" Josh said. "'Cause I would ditch Fillory in a red-hot minute for that shit. Chocolate Swamp and all. And have you seen Princess Frostine?" "Maybe
Lev Grossman
#84. If you really serious 'bout helpin' somebody, crawl down in the ditch with 'em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with 'em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out
Denver Moore
#85. You look great, Senator.I think I could get used to seeing you wet and naked." Lazily she dipped back to float. "If you ever decide to ditch politics, I imagine you could have a successful career as a lifeguard at a nude beach."
"It's always good to have something to fall back on.
Nora Roberts
#86. The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular fashion because those instances of egregious human cruelty were committed for the most part by baptized Christians.
James Lee Burke
#87. But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things that must be done at once, but running out all the same, leaving an emptiness, a dry ditch in its wake.
Bess Tefft
#88. Religion is like a parachute. It does not let us fly, but it helps to get us down in the ditch.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch
there's not a chance.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#90. I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
Marian Keyes
#91. When people tell me to go fly a kite I tell them to go dig a ditch. They say "why dig a ditch"? I say because I want to be closer to Heaven than you.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#92. But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds ... get a Mother.
Diane Duane
#93. In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
Aldo Leopold
#94. In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, 'Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl'.
David Sedaris
#95. The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.
Maureen Howard
#96. I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother's friends and play video games.
Jud Tylor
#97. And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.
Rose Fyleman
#98. That was probably the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me."
"What? Almost falling in a ditch?"
"No, being carried by a girl.
Brandy Nacole
#99. I think we're going to ditch Kellz as your nickname and just start calling you Sieve.
Jennifer Lazaris
#100. We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
David Axelrod
