Dirt Quotes · Page 17

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

— Margaret Atwood

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and…

— Pete Wentz

A rain will fall, but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food nah nuff.

— Bob Marley

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

— Margaret Atwood

“You'll be fertilizer regardless, might as well have interesting stories for the dirt.”

— Amrit Brar

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

— Jon Tester

“Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I…

— Tito Ortiz

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for…

— Luke Bryan

I made this record in the late '80s called 'Diamonds and Dirt,' and it was a big hit. It had five No.…

— Rodney Crowell

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed…

— Alfred Austin

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the…

— Jon Pardi

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

— Robert Herjavec

Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying…

— Dustin Lynch

It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to…

— Lucy Christopher

If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and…

— Sharon Gannon

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting…

— Aldous Huxley

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that…

— John Steinbeck

If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get…

— Barbara Johnson

So it's a really sort of mixed issue but I think, no matter whether you're a Democrat or an independent or a…

— Elissa Slotkin

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that…

— Sarah McLachlan

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap…

— Robertson Davies

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never…

— Kerry Kennedy

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and…

— Max Lucado

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are…

— Chris Stapleton

I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile…

— Joe Garagiola

I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.

— Caroline Buchanan

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name…

— Robert H. Schuller

“My luggage was in the dirt." I raised my eyebrows innocently. "Oh, it must have fallen out." Like your brains.”

— Renee Carter

The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we…

— Shams Tabrizi

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might…

— John Lennon

I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?' Just dirt…

— Big K.R.I.T

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and…

— Josh Turner

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Lord Chesterfield