Digging – Quotes

We are an overfed

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

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. Ezra Taft Benson

He who thinks he

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

I’ve always had a

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. Emo Philips

I think that one\\’s

I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr

I got the sexton,

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 … Read more

Somewhere deep down in

Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours. Elizabeth O’Conner

To-day I think Only

To-day I think Only with scents, – scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot’s seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke’s smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, … Read more

A lot of people

A lot of people ask, \”What do you pull on in your own life from your character?\” In all honesty, it’s not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more … Read more

You cannot dig a

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