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It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Did you see me carrying a shovel? Of course not physically."
"So what did you do, Allie?"
"I touched him. With Magic. Because, you know, grave robbing is so last season.
In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.
Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!
hand-crank sieve.
steel tractor implements buried in more overgrown grass, the rotary blades shining bright from recent use by
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.
Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.
I use a pick in my hair without force.
You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.
You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?
I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
Don't ever use a shovel to swat a fly.
I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.
The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.
Were trying to dig up the roots of that big oak stump near the
A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.
Like Momma says, only thing you get by digging dirt is dirty.
Then came the digging. Oh God, the digging.
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.
dirt, but the machine began to make
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
He sunk the shovel into the cold earth with a satisfying thud.
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
Killer with a polo mallet.
The hand is the tool of tools.
Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley to the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard that you don't fall into the same valley together. Some people's helping hands became their grave digging tools!
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.
Penis? Cock? Dick? Wood? Schlong? Womb broom? Clam hammer? Yogurt slinger?
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
How do you move a mountain? One spoonful of dirt at a time. Chinese proverb
Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.
Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.
This was going to be like plowing a frozen field.
The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.
Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.
If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.
There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knife point, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.
Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
He'd be better off shoveling snow.
Does Chester get to put a corsage on his shovel?
An axe without a blade is just a stick.
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe
All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don't be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!
On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!
The century's most radical vice ... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.
The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons.
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.
[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.
The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is that "they are important in their own roles"! Each is unique! You are unique too. Take the lead!
You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw
My advice to you, Joe, is to pick up a damn shovel, clean up whatever shit you can and learn how to shut your fucking mouth while you still have all of your teeth and can breathe through your nose.
Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
preferably left buried in
How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it.
Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.
The plow of mortality drives through the stubble, turns over rocks and sod and weeds to cover the old, the worn-out, the husks, shells, empty seedpods and sapless roots, clearing the field for the next crop. A ruthless, brutal process - but clean and beautiful.
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.
I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.
You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.
Stanley spent more time pushing the wheelbarrow than digging, because he was such a slow digger. He carted away the excess dirt and dumped it into previously dug holes. He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found.
We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Are you any good at it?"
"Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.
I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.
When you're in a hole, quit digging!
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth - how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.
He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories - A FOLK RIDDLE
Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
Finding the tool is often half the battle.
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
The cut worm forgives the plow
Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
Different people carry different toolboxes.
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
I wondered what I thought I was burying.
Pray for rain while digging a well.
All tools are weapons in the hands of the wrong people.
You want to bang something too, sonny, you can borrow my shovel!
Most things we need in life are only inch deep below the ground, all you need to do is dig it out ... using the wind that you blow away.So start blowing now ...