We didn't come to dig in Egypt for medals. Much more is learned from studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational... finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that conve...rts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit wate...r when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women made a plan to dig their own graves and they said, "We will stand beside our graves because we are not moving from here.... You can shoot and we will lie in our land forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder... a man works, at brute labour, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're a Madison Avenue country. I'm not sure that we make a distinction between newspeople and celebrities. And I think there is a... distinction. The distinction lies in what you do every day--and what you do to get stories and how far you will go and how much you will dig for them. All the rest of the attention that comes to you because you're on the air seems to me an irrelevance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I dug my cellar in the side of a hill sloping to the south, where a woodchuck had formerly dug his burrow, down through sumach and... blackberry roots, and the lowest stain of vegetation, six feet square by seven deep, to a fine sand where potatoes would not freeze in any winter.... I took particular pleasure in this breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an equable temperature. Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth. The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he go...t so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is light given to one in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more... than for hidden treasures; who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they find the grave?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"That corpse you planted last year in your garden, "Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?... "Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? "O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, "Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »