Dirt Quotes · Page 5

“Lothaire, I’ve met dirt younger than we are.” -Nix”

— Kresley Cole

“Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.”

— Sebastian Barry

That was Dad. Don't take any dirt from anybody.

— Gordie Howe

“Dirt is a thing people make too much fuss about.”

— George Orwell

He who throws dirt is losing ground.

— Anonymous

“A diamond earns its value in the dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

They are again in the dirt in the desert

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

— Kate Nash

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

— Laurie David

SO PUT THE 'D' IN DIRT NOW BABY, BABY. LET'S GET YOU WASTED AN ALONE.

— Anonymous

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

— Jeff Garlin

I make niggas eat dirt and fart dust, Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Я" Us.

— Ludacris

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

— Babe Ruth

“I won't regret, because you can grow flowers where dirt used to be.”

— Kate Nash

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

— Theodore Roethke

Is this where you wanna be when Jesus comes back, makin fun of poor little Joe Dirt?

— Joe Dirt

“Your pants are filthy, as if you rolled in the dirt before coming here. I would expect nothing less from the boy…

— Jennifer A. Nielson

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or…

— Seneca the Younger

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it…

— Germaine Greer

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and…

— Jonathan Nolan

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way…

— Elizabeth Alexander

Oh, I can't let you stay but I'm walking on broken ground again. Oh, when will I learn? All you do is…

— La Roux

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

— Mary Douglas

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say,…

— Jane Levy

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and…

— Johnny Cash

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a…

— John Taylor Gatto

Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls…

— Jesse Ventura

I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt…

— Jeff Foxworthy

A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in…

— Jeff Noon

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt…

— Charles Dickens

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In…

— Jeremy Clarkson

But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a…

— Robert Ringer

“We walked into the forests which encircled the town. I have never liked them, their dark throat, their sullen height, their slump-shouldered…

— Sonya Hartnett

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our…

— Tom Robbins

Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick…

— Jay Asher

“Oh, I don’t know, I’ve got a few Benjamins burning a hole in my pocket.” I pat the breast pocket of my…

— Don Calame

After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years.…

— Wilson Rawls

...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and…

— John Cheever