Dirt Quotes · Page 6

“A diamond earns its value in the dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

— Kate Nash

“Everything, even the dirt, was poised.”

— China Miéville

They are again in the dirt in the desert

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

— Anonymous

“Dirt is just matter out of place.”

— Robert Service

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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

— Anonymous

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

— Marge Piercy

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

— The Undertaker

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

— Willis Gaylord Clark

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Anonymous

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Charles Kingsley

Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off…

— Geoff Johns

When I say dirt-poor, I mean Mom made maybe $25,000 a year. I remember buying milk with food stamps. Vividly. So, growing…

— Jason Sehorn

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger…

— Joseph Conrad

I'm here with my niggas, I'm too high to be friendly. They throw dirt on my name, well that's why they still…

— Lil Wayne

“Your hair is the color of dirt,” she said. “It knows where it came from.” “That’s funny,” Blue noted, “because then mine…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see…

— David Spade

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in…

— Alice Walker

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is…

— Matt Skiba

I couldn't sell pills no more [because my] homie went to jail. I was just dirt broke. I went to TDE and…

— Schoolboy Q

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material,…

— Thomas A. Edison

I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country…

— Bill Hicks

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed…

— Alfred Austin

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do…

— Erica Jong

“he fell face first into the dirt which was a mixture of mud with a hundred years or more of chicken crap…

— Connor Fitzgerald

“When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose…

— Conn Iggulden

Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I…

— Kyle Petty

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

— John Cheever

“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

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

“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

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as…

— J. D. Daniels

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming…

— Suzy Kassem