Dirt Quotes

I try to lay off those pitches down in the dirt.

— Marcus Semien

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wildflower…

— Live_Skate_Smoke

“If there's no joy in what you do, why do it?”

— Jason Dirt

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

— Alfred Doblin

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

— Anonymous

“Without dreams the world is only dirt and dust”

— Ann E. Burg

If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!

— Charles Lamb

“We come from dirt and we return to dirt.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Zig Ziglar

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

— Kevin Young

“It takes dirt nurtured by heaven's tears for a seed to bloom into a beautiful flower.”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Perhaps it’s an occupational hazard: I see dirt where others don’t.”

— Nita Prose

“A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Mark Kurlansky

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

— Ruth Wilson

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

— Jack Nicklaus

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well…

— Max McKeown

I'm a typical dirt racer that wants to go try different lines. When the line goes to the top of the racetrack,…

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the…

— Veronica Roth

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter.…

— Mickey Rooney

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an…

— John C. McGinley

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and…

— Michael Keaton

“Dirt is a great respecter of persons; it lets you alone when you are well dressed, but as soon as your collar…

— George Orwell

They say the grass is greener on the other side...that's such b.s. cause when I flipped it over all I saw was…

— Sarah Moores

“the posture than the results. This language thing is part of that. Excuse me: if you clean up the language too much…

— Salman Rushdie

“Golbuchiks? Golbuchiks are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they’ll all return to clay. They’re full of dirt, candle oil, droppings,…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through…

— Janice Tanton

If someone takes something from me I’m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted sick hands and say…

— Michael Mulgrew

A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like…

— Florynce Kennedy

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they…

— Douglas Adams

I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering…

— Kelley Armstrong

I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go…

— Steve Young

I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I…

— G. Willow Wilson

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of…

— Jason Calacanis

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,…

— Jeanette Winterson

White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they…

— Assata Shakur

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these…

— Henry David Thoreau

“MARK ARM : Even if I did talk to [Layne Staley], I don’t know what I would have said. Seeing him so…

— Greg Prato