Dust Quotes

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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,… — Diane Ackerman
I'm full of dust and guitars. — Syd Barrett
There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth. — Standing Bear
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God… — Annie Besant
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. — Ambrose Bierce
You either make dust or eat dust. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. — Lord Byron
We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1,… — Herman Cain
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades… — Italo Calvino
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting… — George Carlin
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. — Thomas Carlyle
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. — John le Carre
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change… — Charles W. Chesnutt
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think… — James Jeans
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community. — Jim Gaffigan
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck

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