Dust Quotes

1193 Dust quotes by 849 unique authors

Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance… — Christopher Smart
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the… — Ezra Pound
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover. — William Shakespeare
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. — Adela Florence Nicolson
That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on… — Timothy Garton Ash
Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies:… — Unknown Author
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.… — Horace Greeley
In my case dust has become Gold — A. R. Rahman
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata. — David Weinberger
And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent… — Deirdre Imus
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens… — Stephen De Staebler
Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. — Abraham Coles
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a… — Muriel Barbery
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. — Adrian Rogers
The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and… — Barbara Demick
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. — Steven Adler
Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust? — Charles Kingsley
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should… — Thomas Boston
But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in… — Unknown Author
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer

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