Best 123 quotes in «digging quotes» category

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.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

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

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

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

If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.

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.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

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.

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

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 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.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

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

I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

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

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

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

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 take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.

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

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.

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.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.

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

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

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

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.

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.

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

I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

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

Now before we do any digging around in that blond head of yours to find out the truth, I suggest you cool your temper. And I know just where you can do that best.” Jace blinked. “Are you sending me to my room?

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Someone is digging your grave right now.

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

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

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!

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