Dig

Famous quotes containing the word dig:

“But keepe the wolfe far thence, that’s foe to men,
For with his nailes he’ll dig them up agen.”
—John Webster (c. 1580–1638)

“If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“We didn’t come to dig in Egypt for medals. Much more is learned from studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.”
—John L. Balderston (1899–1954)