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The language in that letter is damning and that letter has a reference to bringing a shovel and burying a body. – Patrick Reilly	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We all have a shovel in life. Some of us use it to build a pyramid with a great view, and some dig a hole to nowhere. – Raymond Zar	added by rz_1 1 year ago
And then you hear the dirt and rock and the shovel hitting the top of the trailer and—we're being buried alive, my thought process was if we're gonna stay down here and kick the bucket, we might as well kick it trying to get out. – Michael Marshall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was just trying to figure out what the heck was going on, because if I could figure out what was going on, then I could maybe figure out a way to get around it, and then you hear the dirt and rock and the shovel hitting the top of the trailer and—we're being buried alive. – Michael Marshall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I love how her father is being portrayed as some big shot rich guy, he literally, literally digs holes where our human waste goes in, and he works by himself with two helpers with a shovel digging ditches. – Arthur Aidala	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While not immediate, the Willow project in [the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska] is nearly shovel-ready and can provide a domestic source of oil, between the development of NPRA and the longer-term ‘1002 Area’ of ANWR, Alaska could place an additional 17 billion barrels of oil and an additional 32 trillion cubic feet of gas in the marketplace. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The message of this episode is that Jesus was one of us, we explore certain elements of his birth, like Joseph scooping manure with a shovel to make room for Mary to give birth. – Dallas Jenkins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I went back the following day and placed it in an undisturbed part near the area where I found it and buried it slightly just to avoid any bad juju, the most bizarre thing is that I've never believed in anything like this but I’m not willing to take the risk. So I’ve suddenly become all superstitious within a shovel full. I did get a bit creeped out by it all. – Chris Langston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The squirrel didnt care, it just wanted something -- it wanted blood, for a few days afterwards I would come out with a shovel, just in case, looking around. – Micheline Frederick	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
His kids are dead in the car while he is walking through Walmart. He looks like a regular shopper. But instead in his cart, he had saws, acid not a shovel. – Prosecutor Rick Hubbard	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Some of the firemen were really upset, one wanted to come after us with a shovel. – Steve McCurry	Found on CNN 6 years ago
One wanted to come after us with a shovel. – Steve McCurry	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Moms back then in our neighborhood ... would bundle the kids up in multiple layers and lock them out of the house 'til dark, leaving us to build snow forts, sled down the hill or shovel driveways for extra spending money, how times have changed! Fast-forward to today. What is a mom to do when there's a blizzard in cold climates (or heavy rain and flooding in California)? Instead of locking the kids out, moms are overprotective and keep the kids inside. – Janis Brett Elspas	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Hopefully...we'll never give up. They'll have to shovel us in the grave. We feel like we're still evolving and I think you have to feel that way, every show that you do, you say the next one is going to be a little bit better. – Keith Richards	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In the main hut there is stuff everywhere, a coal shovel beside the stove, jars and containers of food on the shelf, wooden spoons left on the kitchen bench, all of these things really do tell the story more thoroughly. – Martin Passingham	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is really the only effective way to get the gold, you could still go in with a shovel and a pan, but it would n’t be efficient and, of course, the environmental effect would be the same - a non-factor. – Shannon Poe	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We’ll have some fun, shovel out and go back to school, it’s all in a day’s work, and it’s one very exciting day for our school. – Adam Olenn	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Officers were running around flagging down trucks, trying to see if anyone in the area had a shovel, we were using (EMTs') back braces to try to remove snow. People were clawing at it. Eventually, between good Samaritans, truck drivers coming by with shovels in their beds, we were able to get a decent amount of shovels. – Brandon Rola	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Around the ninth, 10th shovel full, I hit a child's boot. – Brandon Rola	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I pulled the shovel out, and I definitely didn't put it together then but just kind of decided to start digging. – Brandon Rola	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. – Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I once said, We will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. – Nikita Khrushchev	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The language in that letter is damning and that letter has a reference to bringing a shovel and burying a body.

– Patrick Reilly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We all have a shovel in life. Some of us use it to build a pyramid with a great view, and some dig a hole to nowhere.

– Raymond Zar

added by rz_1
1 year ago

And then you hear the dirt and rock and the shovel hitting the top of the trailer and—we're being buried alive, my thought process was if we're gonna stay down here and kick the bucket, we might as well kick it trying to get out.

– Michael Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was just trying to figure out what the heck was going on, because if I could figure out what was going on, then I could maybe figure out a way to get around it, and then you hear the dirt and rock and the shovel hitting the top of the trailer and—we're being buried alive.

– Michael Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love how her father is being portrayed as some big shot rich guy, he literally, literally digs holes where our human waste goes in, and he works by himself with two helpers with a shovel digging ditches.

– Arthur Aidala

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While not immediate, the Willow project in [the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska] is nearly shovel-ready and can provide a domestic source of oil, between the development of NPRA and the longer-term ‘1002 Area’ of ANWR, Alaska could place an additional 17 billion barrels of oil and an additional 32 trillion cubic feet of gas in the marketplace.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The message of this episode is that Jesus was one of us, we explore certain elements of his birth, like Joseph scooping manure with a shovel to make room for Mary to give birth.

– Dallas Jenkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I went back the following day and placed it in an undisturbed part near the area where I found it and buried it slightly just to avoid any bad juju, the most bizarre thing is that I've never believed in anything like this but I’m not willing to take the risk. So I’ve suddenly become all superstitious within a shovel full. I did get a bit creeped out by it all.

– Chris Langston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The squirrel didnt care, it just wanted something -- it wanted blood, for a few days afterwards I would come out with a shovel, just in case, looking around.

– Micheline Frederick

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

His kids are dead in the car while he is walking through Walmart. He looks like a regular shopper. But instead in his cart, he had saws, acid not a shovel.

– Prosecutor Rick Hubbard

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Some of the firemen were really upset, one wanted to come after us with a shovel.

– Steve McCurry

Found on CNN
6 years ago

One wanted to come after us with a shovel.

– Steve McCurry

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Moms back then in our neighborhood ... would bundle the kids up in multiple layers and lock them out of the house 'til dark, leaving us to build snow forts, sled down the hill or shovel driveways for extra spending money, how times have changed! Fast-forward to today. What is a mom to do when there's a blizzard in cold climates (or heavy rain and flooding in California)? Instead of locking the kids out, moms are overprotective and keep the kids inside.

– Janis Brett Elspas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Hopefully...we'll never give up. They'll have to shovel us in the grave. We feel like we're still evolving and I think you have to feel that way, every show that you do, you say the next one is going to be a little bit better.

– Keith Richards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the main hut there is stuff everywhere, a coal shovel beside the stove, jars and containers of food on the shelf, wooden spoons left on the kitchen bench, all of these things really do tell the story more thoroughly.

– Martin Passingham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is really the only effective way to get the gold, you could still go in with a shovel and a pan, but it would n’t be efficient and, of course, the environmental effect would be the same - a non-factor.

– Shannon Poe

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We’ll have some fun, shovel out and go back to school, it’s all in a day’s work, and it’s one very exciting day for our school.

– Adam Olenn

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Officers were running around flagging down trucks, trying to see if anyone in the area had a shovel, we were using (EMTs') back braces to try to remove snow. People were clawing at it. Eventually, between good Samaritans, truck drivers coming by with shovels in their beds, we were able to get a decent amount of shovels.

– Brandon Rola

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Around the ninth, 10th shovel full, I hit a child's boot.

– Brandon Rola

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I pulled the shovel out, and I definitely didn't put it together then but just kind of decided to start digging.

– Brandon Rola

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

– Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

– Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

– Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I once said, We will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

– Nikita Khrushchev

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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