Dirt Quotes · Page 15

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

— Marge Piercy

From the dirt to the diamond, I promise you all of me.

— Anonymous

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

— Lyman Abbott

“All I know is that when I whisper to dirt, my conversations are less than meaningful.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

— Reggie Miller

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

— Lupita Nyong'o

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

— Jo Brand

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a…

— John of the Cross

“I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over…

— Rae Carson

“i even tried to bury myself alive but the dirt recoiled you have already rotted it said there is nothing left for…

— Rupi Kaur

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and…

— Jeff Kinney

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor…

— Pablo Neruda

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color…

— Sandra Boynton

My dad knew that if I wanted to make a career out of it, I needed to go to NASCAR rather than…

— Tanner Berryhill

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

— Sean Kingston

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'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

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

— Johnny Cash

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in…

— Joyce Meyer

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 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

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And…

— Matthew McConaughey

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

— Paul Anka

“One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.”

— Will Advise

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

— Oliver Evans

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

— Richard Ojeda

“… matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.”

— Howard Jacobson

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

— R. C. Sproul

“He was an Atlantean...older than dirt and dirt's great-grandfather.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

— Jay-Z

“A bath is not enough to remove all your dirt if you are dirty from inside.”

— Hussain Rasheed

“Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”

— Martin Amis

“her mind was still picking away like a hen at a patch of plain dirt.”

— Ella Carey

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

— Chris DiBona

“Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning ourselves—"justifying" ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

— Quentin Crisp

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

— Alice Walker

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

— Jonathan Swift