Dirt Quotes

587 Dirt quotes by 473 unique authors

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food.… — Sylvester Stallone
When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we… — Scott Stapp
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were… — Josh Turner
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know,… — Herschel Walker
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves -… — Vivienne Westwood
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. — C.S. Lewis
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye… — Sherman Alexie
It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift… — Robert Fulghum
Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck… — Annie Dillard
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going… — Alice Munro
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.… — Kurt Vonnegut
I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would… — Unknown Author
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… — Toni Morrison
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to… — Mary Oliver
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and… — Barbara Kingsolver
I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was… — Kelley Armstrong
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good… — Robert Cormier
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no… — Anne Holm
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. — Margaret Atwood
And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that… — Betty Smith
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll… — Maya Angelou

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