- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gravel Quotes
Small lines that turn everyday grit into vivid imagery.
Gravel shows up in this collection as a stand-in for wear, discomfort, and rough ground underfoot: a picture book read so many times its flaws start to feel like grit in the sheets, a warning against tall heels, and Maine's sandy coastal soil that grows wild blueberries. It's an unusual but oddly vivid set of comparisons, related in spirit to our Beds quotes collection.
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- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Driving on gravel is very demanding. There are lots of movements on the steering wheel which put a lot of stress on my arm and my hand.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
- Angola
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in the sandy gravel understory of Maine's coastal forests, where little else bothers even trying to grow.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020