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Quotes About Digging

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.
~ Jennifer Egan
Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.
~ P.C. Cast
Two shovels and a pickax.
~ Chris Grabenstein
Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth.
~ Helon Habila
Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.
~ Henry Ford
I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.
~ Carol Kane
La seguii, e constatai che quello scavo era di natura archeologica. Dei pioli conficcati nel terreno erano collegati da una cordicella, per delimitare l'area in cui quei volontarii picconavano il suolo, cercando di fare meno rumore possibile.
~ Jasper Fforde
Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.
~ Phil Collins
With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.
~ Tom Hayes
Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.
~ Tony Hillerman
There was earth inside them, and they dug.
~ Paul Celan
He dreams he's with a very sad kid and they're in a graveyard digging some dead guy's head up and it's really important
~ David Foster Wallace
Los buscadores de oro mucha tierra cavan y encuentran poco
~ Heraclitus
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!
~ Tim Daly
During one session, the therapist returned from a trip to the rest room to find that another dog had dug a hole in a potted plant and buried Mancha.
~ Jennifer Coburn
I love chimpanzees. I love their stubbornness and their strength. I love the way they dig their fingers into life and never let it get the better of them. I love the tenderness beneath their wild tempers. I love them because they refuse to apologize for who they are.
~ Unknown
I need more pieces to the puzzle, but no one is going to hand them to me. I have to find them. Dig them from their hiding places, from the ground and the people. Listen, the road seems to admonish. Listen. I have stories. I close my eyes, and I hear voices. Thousands whispering all at once. I can't make out any single one, but I know they're here. What do they have to say?
~ Unknown
Life's a garden. Dig It!
~ Unknown
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.
~ Susan Orlean
I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures.
~ Julia Sawalha
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
~ Louis Sachar
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.
~ Greg Bryk
I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.
~ Unknown