Top 41 Shoveling Quotes
#1. God, I...I could use some help with the shoveling if I'm going to dig up some faith. Some hope.
Jessica R. Patch
#2. 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
#3. I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
Douglas Coupland
#4. We may not always feel it when building a deck for someone, shoveling snow, helping out financially, watching a neighbor's kids, opening our home, or giving gifts, but these habits and activities do create a well that people will eventually gravitate toward.
Hugh Halter
#5. Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#6. Lucas too was shoveling pancakes into his mouth. Syrup dripped from the sexy stubble that covered his chin and her mouth watered at the sight. Fallon no longer wanted the syrup that covered her pancakes. More like the syrup from his chin, and lips, or hell just dump it on him!!!
Toni Aleo
#7. People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
Neal Barnard
#8. So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party
Stephen Chbosky
#9. There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knife point, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.
Terry Pratchett
#11. People tell me things they shouldn't. Things they ought to be powdering over, shoveling underground, facts they ought to be stuffing into a carpetbag before dropping into the river and quietly drowning.
Lyndsay Faye
#12. I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.
Eleanor Mondale
#14. Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it's better."12
Walter Isaacson
#15. And it was a really bad sign of how much fun you weren't having when you actually missed shoveling horse poo.
Claudia Gray
#17. I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit ... when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
#19. If you work with great people, it will be a great experience. Even if you're shoveling shit.
Jen Sincero
#20. We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.
Michael Nutter
#21. Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.
Erma Bombeck
#22. I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.
Joel McHale
#23. The difference between an ignorant fool shoveling manure in a bullpen, and a fool with a PhD, is that the fool with the PhD can shovel more of it, faster.
Dimitris Mita
#24. Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. You want the guy who'll get your medicine in the middle of the night, even in a blizzard, even after twenty years. You want the guy who shows you every day, shoveling the walk, carrying your groceries, shows you how much he loves you. It's not about talking the talk,
Amy Bloom
#27. I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.
Lee DeWyze
#28. I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
Rufus Wainwright
#29. There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'
Charlie Munger
#30. When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love
(April 2012, O Magazine)
Anne Lamott
#31. Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops - that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating.
Michael Chabon
#33. The cars on the block were already hidden under a sodden layer of white. People were shoveling their walks and
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#35. Shoveling food into his mouth. Thoughts came fluently, cogently:
Robert Galbraith
#36. Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
Shannon Hale
#38. It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.
Cynthia Lewis
#40. Our bodies are our temples. They should have a little more respect for themselves than that."
"You know, I could have sworn I saw you shoveling Cheetos into your temple last week."
"Oh, but I'm pretty sure those were nonfat," Kaylee piped up.
Oh brother.
Gemma Halliday
#41. Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.
Jonathan Tropper
