Dust Quotes · Page 14

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

— Armand Hammer

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“you are dust,         and  p to dust you shall return.”

— Anonymous

Who are you to judge me? For me you are not more than just a dust!

— Athirah

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

— Emile M. Cioran

I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.

— Camila Alves

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

— Phyllis Diller

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

— Aberjhani

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even…

— Casey Stengel

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising…

— Anonymous

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic…

— D. H. Lawrence

I drive your truck, I roll every window down, and I burn up, every back road in this town, I find a…

— Anonymous

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

— Thomas Merton

Your prayers are your light; Your devotion is your strength; Sleep is the enemy of both. Your life is the only opportunity…

— Rabia Basri

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to…

— E B White

Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same…

— Ken Wilber

You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He…

— Charles Spurgeon

Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky…

— Ogden Nash

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck…

— Leo Tolstoy

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's…

— Gore Vidal

Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…

— Alberto Manguel

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like…

— Isaac Asimov

When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got…

— Ashton Kutcher

I don't wear base, as I don't like to cover up my freckles, but I couldn't live without YSL Touche Eclat for…

— Eva Green

A man giving challenge to God is like a particle of dust giving challenge to Storm.

— Vikrant Parsai

India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.

— Greig Fraser

“Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.”

— Soumya V

Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?

— Huineng

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

— Lois Gould

“For He knows how we are formed; He is mindful that we are dust.”

— Anonymous

I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

— Chris Borland

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

— Amanda Hocking

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

— Elizabeth George

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

“But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated.”

— Lauren Oliver

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

— Anonymous

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

— Anonymous

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

— A. R. Rahman

“The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.”

— Caroline Green