Shoveling Quotes

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. (Phyllis Diller)

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Shannon Hale

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

Eleanor Mondale

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

Jonathan Tropper

The joys of command - well, you know. You taught them to me. One part glory to ten parts shoveling manure.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I dare say that most of you gentlemen know that a good many pig-iron handlers can never learn to shovel right; the ordinary pig-iron handler is not the type of man well suited to shoveling. He is to stupid; there is too much mental strain, too much knack required of a shoveled for the pig-iron handler to take kindly to shoveling.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

Lee DeWyze

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Rufus Wainwright

Never use needle for shoveling. Needle is for sewing and shovel is for harvesting. Therefore, when you leave a job to your hands, look at their capabilities and scales and so keep in mind that shovel can be used for many different things, but its main usage is to feed the air into the land. (Elia M. Ramollah)