Excavation Work Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Luck hides behind sweat and toil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Shelagh Delaney

#4. The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Philip Wylie

#5. If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Robert Novak

#6. A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he's what you need.

Timothy Keller

#7. Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

Marge Piercy

#8. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

Jonathan Kellerman

#9. Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

Nick Davies

#10. For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.

Christian Fennesz

#11. Burnout, beat-up and broken down we may limp away from a failed relationship, job or environment, but we will be better equipped to follow our hearts...thoughtfully. Our ability to see the potential in ourselves and others will determine our success.

Steve Knox