Quotes About Digging Holes For Others

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. 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

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Amanda Mosher

#6. Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

William Shakespeare

#7. The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

K.M. Soehnlein

#8. The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.

Mitt Romney

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

Seymour Chwast

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

Denis Healey

#11. The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Whatever. I'm pretty sure Mercutio was a vampire. He had the attitude, you know? He just never got a chance to show his fangs.

Kersten Hamilton

#13.
Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.

Beryl Markham

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

#17. Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing!

Ripley Patton

#18. Theres nothing more fun than a kitten in zero gravity.

Steve Merrick

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

Will Rogers

#20. 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

#21. The cup that went down under has now come up again.

Sue Simmons

#22. Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like "yoga" or "karma", it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.

Debra Ollivier

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

Denis Healey

#24. Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

Tom Shales

#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. 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

#27. 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

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

Molly Ivins

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

Seymour Chwast

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

Edward De Bono

#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