Quotes About Shovel

All that winter I shoveled snow and read books. The lines of print, the alphabetic characters, the strokes of the shovel when I cleared a walk, the linear arrangement of words on a page, the shovel strokes, the rote exercises in school texts, the novels I read, the dictionaries I found in the tiny library, the nature and shape of books, the routine of shovel strokes in the deep snow - this was how I began to build an individual.

Smalls looked around the office and asked, "Where do you want me to stick the shovel?

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.