Dirt Quotes

587 Dirt quotes by 473 unique authors

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it. — Duke Ellington
The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday. — Harold Klemp
Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you. — LeCrae
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. — Henry Adams
How dare you treat your soil like dirt! — Joel Salatin
I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt. — Jay-Z
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. — Hilarie Burton
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I… — J. D. Daniels
Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?”… — Ken Baumann
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild… — Joe Meno
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here… — John Cheever
Well apparently nothing as of December 13, 1978. There was 20 trained police officers came to the house, with a warrant..searched the house, and they… — John Wayne Gacy
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about… — Barbara Johnson
Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well. — Walter Winchell
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more… — Thomas A. Edison
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption… — John Bunyan
Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same.… — Michael Shaara
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from… — Katherine Dunn
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. — Oscar Wilde
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go… — Andrew Carnegie
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… — Terry Tempest Williams
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all… — Jane Jacobs
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. — David Blaine

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