Dirt Quotes

587 Dirt quotes by 473 unique authors

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt… — Nicole Krauss
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max — James Patterson
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth… — E L Konigsburg
You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in… — Cassandra Clare
Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt,… — Jay Asher
Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You… — Deepak Chopra
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the… — John Steinbeck
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a… — Stephen King
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and… — Joseph Conrad
He pivoted, gaze following me as I crossed to the shower and turned on the cold water, so it would drown out our conversation without… — Kelley Armstrong
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at… — Cassandra Clare
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and… — Henry Miller
I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid… — Kathryn Stockett
Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from. — Charles Olson
modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt. — Mark Kurlansky
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day… — Witold Gombrowicz
sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after… — Hayley Williams
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers… — Richard Brautigan
So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the… — Susan Sontag
I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet… — Carolyn Parkhurst

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