Dust Quotes · Page 19

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

— Will Durant

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

— Abraham Coles

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

— George Darley

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

— Virginia Woolf

“How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters.”

— Ryan Galloway

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

— Charles Baudelaire

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

— Marcus Aurelius

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

— Carl Sandburg

“My name is Rosalie. I may be smaller, I may be weaker, but I was born free, should die free. You will…

— Devon Ashley

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust…

— Patsy Kensit

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to…

— Anonymous

When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust…

— Sen no Rikyu

We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor…

— Cassandra Clare

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,…

— Oscar Wilde

Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I…

— Morgan Fairchild

The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white…

— Edith Sitwell

Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like,…

— Donald C. Peattie

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a…

— Gustave Flaubert

Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the…

— Lola Ridge

My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the…

— David Walker

“I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop 's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of…

— Francis Bacon

We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

— Rumer Godden

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

— Aaliyah

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Pablo Picasso

“There is no person you can shake that dust will not fall off of.”

— Savy Theara

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

— Jilly Cooper

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

— Toni Morrison

“In the afternoon, over gold screens, I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.”

— John Gould Fletcher

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

— Stephen Spender

'Dust Off And Dance,' the album, was really all about me being in England.

— Tiffany Darwish

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

— Laurie Graham

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

— Shan Sa

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

— Oscar Wilde

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

— Frederick Lenz

I make niggas eat dirt and fart dust, Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Я" Us.

— Ludacris