Best 169 quotes in «dirt quotes» category

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!

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

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The real lowdown on gardening is ... 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.

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

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.

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.

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.

Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean

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.

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

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

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

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.

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

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.