Dirt Quotes · Page 6

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

— Gordie Howe

“Throwing dirt on a seed only increases its value.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Dirt is just matter out of place.”

— Robert Service

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

— Anonymous

“Everything, even the dirt, was poised.”

— China Miéville

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

— Kate Nash

They are again in the dirt in the desert

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

— Anonymous

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

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

— John Madden

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Walt Whitman

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

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

— Paul Mooney

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

— Wallace Stevens

“We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirt thoughts.”

— Jennifer Niven

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt…

— Alexander Pope

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign…

— Jeff Foxworthy

“Are you mad?” “Why would I be mad?” “I’m covered in mud.” “Are you sure that’s mud? I thought you were covered…

— Lisa Henry

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands…

— Richard P. Feynman

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem…

— Robert Hilburn

“Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as…

— Gertrude Stein

The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a…

— Michael Grant

Schwarzenegger said last night on the show he expects his opponents to throw all kinds of dirt at him. And you know,…

— Jay Leno

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with…

— Peter Singer

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a…

— Dan Bilzerian

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an…

— Anonymous

The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their…

— John Bunyan

I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be,…

— David Duchovny

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a…

— Siri Hustvedt

“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

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

“I rushed to the bathroom for every corner of the hospital was suffocating. I got hold of acid-bottle, which was meant for…

— Mehek Bassi

In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build…

— Gerald Jay Sussman

Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not…

— Sathya Sai Baba

You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what…

— Mitch Albom

In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't…

— Pope Francis