Dust Quotes

1193 Dust quotes by 849 unique authors

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth… — Ralph McTell
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky.… — Rose Wilder Lane
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. — Don McLean
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz
I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond. — Mark Munoz
Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your… — Nick Vujicic
Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just… — Hongzhi Zhengjue
We start out as little bits of disconnected dust. — Naomi Shihab Nye
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling… — William Wordsworth
I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he… — Edgar Guest
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through… — Victoria Finlay
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have… — Baltasar Gracian
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. — Benjamin Franklin
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes… — Neil Gaiman
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then… — William Gibson
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the… — Ellen Glasgow
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the… — Salvador Dali
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate.… — Claire Danes

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