Dust Quotes · Page 16

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the…

— Standing Bear

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

— Bruce Springsteen

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

“I wouldn't go back to ashes or dust Words gave me life and in them I will surrender From words to words..”

— Akanksha Singh

“For he knows our frame; [1] he remembers that we are dust.”

— Anonymous

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“But for all the feet that had trodden it, it remained ordinary dust, which seemed to make everything much sadder.”

— William Golding

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of…

— George Sterling

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying…

— Ryan Adams

Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

“Sometimes I grow so tired of speaking my emotions to you. I open my mouth and dust spills out instead of feelings.”

— Gabriel Gadfly

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in…

— Rachel Morrison

When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off…

— Marcus Mariota

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why,…

— Norton Juster

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive…

— David Gemmell

“You are dust, her eyes said. You are dirt. You are nothing. Why do you bother surviving? Why are you still alive?…

— Frances Hardinge

Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a…

— Jeet Thayil

Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom…

— Baltasar Gracian

This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender…

— John Newton

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be…

— Amanda Palmer

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

— Virginia Woolf

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

— Ilana Mercer

“We are all made of flesh and stars, but we all become dust in the end. Best to shine while you can.”

— Alice Feeney

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

— Mark Morris

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

— Thomas Gray

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

— Saadi

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

— Yehuda Levi

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

— William Wordsworth

“My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.”

— Elle Jasper

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

— Adrian Rogers

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

— Tina Brown

“The minutest particles of dust form a world. The meanest grain of sand under our foot proclaims a divine law.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

— William Shakespeare

“Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.”

— Philip Pullman

“to subdue one’s self to other people’s ends was dust and ashes.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

— Moses