When Someone Ditches You Quotes

#1. I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

Franklin Graham

#2. I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway.

Mary Ann Rivers

#3. For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.

Ray Bradbury

#4. Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Thomas Harris

#5. A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
What matter if the ditches are impure?
What matter if I live it all once more?

William Butler Yeats

#6. Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

Woody Herman

#7. The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

Dr. Seuss

#9. So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.

Lisa Rinna

#10. Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

George A. Smith

#11. McKinsey partners tend to be designers of ditches, not diggers of ditches. When it comes to executing their lofty theories, well, consultants lean toward leaving those messy realities to the companies themselves.

Bethany McLean

#12. Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

Jeff Henderson

#13. A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

William Plomer

#15. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle

Robert Louis Stevenson