Digging Quotes

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

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

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

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'd be better for his health.

The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

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

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

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

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

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.

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

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

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.

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

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

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

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