Digging Quotes

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

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

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

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.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

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

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.