During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business - Mark Twain
Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. - Stephen King
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! - Israelmore Ayivor
I grabbed a shovel and dug, and dug, and dug.Sorry not a very poetic thought, but very deep. - Lenora Fraga
My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream! - Maureen Johnson
All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives. - Annie Dillard
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. - Nikita Khrushchev
When all things seem to fail, stand on your inner strength, shovel today's challenges for your tomorrow's freedom. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
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) - Frankie Boyle
I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'... - Doug Stanhope
Shovel today's challenges for your tomorrow's freedom. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Some of us need to put down the megaphone and just grab a shovel. Little less talk and a lot more action. - Brad Lomenick
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. - Amelia Earhart