Dirt Quotes · Page 9

“Dirt is just matter out of place.”

— Robert Service

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

“A diamond earns its value in the dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

He who throws dirt is losing ground.

— Anonymous

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

— George Orwell

“Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

— Jay-Z

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

— Lou Reed

I ride my dirt bike. I go to the mall. I go to my friends' house and watch TV.

— Ray J

Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.

— Scott Gottlieb

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

— Curtis Jackson

Oprah is definitely a self-made woman and she came from being dirt poor, as did I.

— Chrishell Stause

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

— Jeremy Clarkson

I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.

— Caroline Buchanan

The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile…

— Joe Garagiola

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap…

— Robertson Davies

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and…

— Max Lucado

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never…

— Kerry Kennedy

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are…

— Chris Stapleton

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

— Alfred Austin

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so…

— Robert Herjavec

Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic…

— Cassandra Clare

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

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

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a…

— Maya Angelou

But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their…

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like…

— William Klein

George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and…

— Alan Goldsher

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to…

— Anonymous

On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest,…

— E. O. Wilson

Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have…

— Diego Klattenhoff

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In…

— Chris Horner