Best 169 quotes in «dirt quotes» category

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

The very first as a cardinal rule for a person to build trust is to do must only that what is humanly just as that helps to wipe and wither away those parasitic people stuck to his life as dirt and dust.

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.