Dirt Quotes · Page 15

“Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”

— Martin Amis

“A bath is not enough to remove all your dirt if you are dirty from inside.”

— Hussain Rasheed

“her mind was still picking away like a hen at a patch of plain dirt.”

— Ella Carey

“Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.”

— Tim Winton

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

— Carlene Carter

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

— Christopher Titus

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

— George Orwell

“For matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.”

— Howard Jacobson

'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was…

— Jon Pardi

“Check out the magic crap.” He shot me a look. “Oh, is that what we’re supposed to be doing? Because I’ve just…

— Rachel Hawkins

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work…

— Mike Rowe

I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call…

— Caroline Buchanan

I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it…

— Trent Reznor

My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy…

— Frank Iero

“We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be…

— John Green

“By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this…

— Laini Taylor

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the…

— Henry Flynt

Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had…

— Annie Dillard

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Dad always scrapbooked everything. There's piles of scrapbooks. You know, even when you were an amateur coming up on dirt bikes -…

— Travis Pastrana

Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city…

— John Hagee

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to…

— Conrad Burns

The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then…

— Karl Marlantes

A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.

— Jack Handey

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

— Paul Theroux

I'm tired of talkin' man y'all ain't listenin' Them ol' dirt roads, is what y'all missin'

— Jason Aldean

Big 35's whinin' on the asphalt. Grabbin' mud, and slingin' up some red dirt.

— Alan Jackson

Remember, every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there.

— Nishan Panwar

“We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

— Matt Skiba

And I swear to everythin when I leave this earth its guna be on coup feet never knees in the dirt.

— Author Name

“A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.”

— Zarina Bibi

“I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

— Walt Whitman

“I covered up my mistakes—with dirt, like you’d do with any other dead bodies.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

— John Madden

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

— Willis Gaylord Clark

You do dirt, you get dirt. Karma's a bitch, you should know.

— Anonymous

“The prettiest flowers earn their honor in the ugliest dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo