Spade Tells

Famous quotes containing the words spade and/or tells:

“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

“My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.”
—Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994)