Quotes About Digging Holes

#1. They all agreed, that I could not be produced according to the regular laws of nature; because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing of trees, or digging holes in the earth.

Jonathan Swift

#2. I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

Cliff Curtis

#3. I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want - or want what you find.

Tami Hoag

#5. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Jamaica Kincaid

#6. Have you heard the saying 'The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel'?

Terry Pratchett

#7. I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Ray Winstone

#8. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

A.A. Milne

#9. A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ...

Antonin Artaud

#10. I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Christina Aguilera

#12. There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#13. I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool.

Anna Silk

#14. It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

#15. Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

Drew Carey

#16. If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.

Seymour Chwast

#17. Sometimes I dig holes for people to fall in. Then I shout, "I've got you!

Amanda Mosher

#18. The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

George W. Bush

#19. Making something is Hard
Making something you don't even CARE ABOUT is
EVEN HARDER .

JON WESTENBERG

#20. 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

#21. If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Will Rogers

#22. That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with nothing. By running away at least she would have the joy of knowing she was missed.

Simon Van Booy

#23. Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

#24. Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.

Meghan Trainor

#25. The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

Thomas Friedman

#26. Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#27. The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

Molly Ivins

#28. If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.

Seymour Chwast

#29. You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

Edward De Bono

#30. Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.

Joseph Delaney

#31. More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

Dale Spender