Top 20 Shovel Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Shovel Quotes from famous people such as Thomas Gibson, Dan Buettner, Richard Gere, James Clapper, John McDonnell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shove

There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach.
Thomas Gibson
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Dan Buettner
It’s nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn’t there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.
Richard Gere
I do think – the metaphor I always use – it’s the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.
James Clapper
I call a spade a shovel, straightforward. If I disagree with someone, I tell them.
John McDonnell
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.
Alan Huffman
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
Jeff Daniels
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn’t matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I’m amazed they get food into their mouths at all.
Letitia Baldrige
You don’t go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don’t take belt buckles off the Arizona.
Robert Ballard
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.
Reince Priebus
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing – if it doesn’t lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Hal Borland
There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
Thomas Gibson
Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It’s not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
Henry Rollins
I have a pooper-scooper, a long-handled thing with a little shovel.
Princess Michael of Kent
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.
David Means
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush’s shovel.
Rahm Emanuel
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan
We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity – the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I’ll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren’t.
Jeffrey Kluger
I keep thinking someone’s gonna show up and say, ‘There’s been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here’s your shovel.’
Gary Larson