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Swimmers never dig and spinners never shick. |
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| Johnny Damon |
But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more. |
| Clare Balding |
Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk. |
| Triple H |
'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch the final fight in 'Rocky' a thousand times. If you dig that movie, if you like the characters, you'll watch the whole movie over and over. |
| Ann Bancroft |
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. |
| Peter Hain |
My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me. |
| Adan Canto |
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them. |
| Bob Ehrlich |
We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into. |
| Carl Sandburg |
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. |
| Charles Spurgeon |
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. |
| Dave Eggers |
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. |
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Sumerian Cities
Sumerian towns and cities included Eridu, Nippur, Lagash, Kish, and Ur. The cities differed from primitive farming settlements. They were not composed of family-owned farms, but were ringed by large tracts of land. These tracts were thought to be "owned" by a local god. A priest organized work groups of farmers to tend the land and provide barley, beans, wheat, olives, grapes, and flax for the community.
These early cities, which existed by 3500 BC, were called temple towns because they were built around the temple of the local god. The temples were eventually built up on to...
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