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Letter "D" » ditch
«I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.»
Author: Branch Rickey
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Doing Your Best,
Jobs
| Keywords:
digger, ditch, ditched, ditches, ditch digger, dollar
«But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.»
Author: Paul Engle
| Keywords:
ditch
«I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.»
«I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.»
«If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.»
«For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.»
«If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? / If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; / Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.»
«A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.»
«It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.»
«I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.»
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