Quotes about Digging
Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
— Genesis 26:19
If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
— Exodus 21:33
The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
— Numbers 21:18
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
— 2 Kings 19:24
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
— Job 24:16
As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
— Ezekiel 12:5
He remembered that, after digging for a little, the water oozes round your finger-tips; the hole then becomes a moat; a well; a spring; a secret channel to the sea.
— Virginia Woolf
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
— JC Ryle
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
— Ricky Gervais
Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
— Margaret Atwood