Dirt Quotes · Page 14

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

— Carlene Carter

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

“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

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

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White…

— David Gemmell

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the…

— Bob Dylan

Been a dead man, so I'mma dig you out the Earth nigga. Just to stomp your skeleton right back into the dirt…

— Meek Mill

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

— Jane Levy

“What a time to be alive, huh? On one hand, we’re nothing. We’re dirt. On the other hand, we’re the reason the…

— José Rivera

On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have to fully commit. If…

— Rickie Fowler

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

— Cheryl Mendelson

“Dirt is chaos, gritty, full of bugs and decay, but from that dirt comes such immense beauty. Roses, tulips, tomatoes, peonies, raspberries,…

— R.S. Grey

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories -…

— Lynn Coady

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

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that…

— Jim Morrison

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

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

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Willis Gaylord Clark

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

— The Undertaker

“around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.”

— Charles Kingsley

“Learn from seeds; they don’t die when you throw dirt at them; they grow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Zarina Bibi

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

— Author Name

“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

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

“Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Paul Mooney

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

— Jim Rohn

My parents can't always travel with me because my little brother is a world champion on dirt bikes.

— Hailie Deegan