Quotes About Shovels

#1. Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.

Martin Luther

#2. Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

John Wanamaker

#3. Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Hakim Bey

#4. I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back - but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau

Randy Alcorn

#5. Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Jerry Coleman

#6. I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel!

R. G. LeTourneau

#7. Why has he taken this job? ... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

J.M. Coetzee

#8. Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches - and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment

Neal Stephenson

#9. Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

Rodney Dangerfield

#10. Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.

Aron Ra

#11. only people who profit from a gold rush are the ones who sell the picks and shovels. People who use them don't fare as well.

Anonymous

#12. A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

Marge Piercy

#13. The Commonwealth - humanity - is in deep shit, and we're the people with the shovels.

Marko Kloos

#14. In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

George Clooney

#15. Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

Saint Basil

#16. It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.

Josh Williams

#17. 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

#18. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

Peter Lynch

#19. My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth

Carl Henegan

#20. It was expected that men's hands would be good and calloused by reins and shovels and the hands of other men whose lives they knew by the tough skin of their handshakes.

Wiley Cash

#21. Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

Benjamin Percy

#22. Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

T.K. Naliaka

#23. All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

John Vianney

#24. Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Tryon Edwards

#25. Veronika was disconcerted at first and then realized that she had nothing to lose. She was dead; what was the point of continuing to feed the fears or preconceptions that had always limited her life?

Paulo Coelho

#26. My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

Daniel Woodrell

#27. Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.

Carrie Newcomer

#28. Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#29. Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.

Mohith Agadi

#30. Some can do things others cannot, Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.

Robert Jordan

#31. Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

Samuel Lover

#32. You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

Ken Kesey

#33. Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Mark Twain

#34. No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

Austin O'Malley

#35. [A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi