Hand Dug Wells

Famous quotes containing the words hand, dug and/or wells:

    The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 26:8.

    The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)