Pickaxes Quotes & Sayings

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. — Christopher Hitchens

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Pickaxes?" Alex screwed up his brow. "What do you plan to do with those in Bristol, Pooele? Beat upon little old ladies? — Katharine Ashe

History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time. — Benjamin Percy

It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is still standing, a miracle we thrill to every day. But if the beauty of Paris has survived wars, how extraordinary that it can do nothing against the pickaxes of the Parisians themselves when they make up their minds to demolish something, nor against the vagaries of their architects left to their own devices! — Julien Green

Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one's own Self. — Dada Bhagwan

And now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts. — Paul Auster

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity. — Gene Robinson

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle. — Wilma Rudolph

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. — Robert Powell

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe. — Malcolm-Jamal Warner