Dirt Quotes

• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Made, Something Better

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

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• The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Passion, Oats

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Matter, Housework

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• We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

  Pablo Neruda

  Flower, Fire, Air

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• I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

  Matt Groening

  Fancy, Stuff, Kind

  "The Simpsons: Team Homer". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”, p.62

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• 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

  Music, Mean, Play

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• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Umpires, Greatest Baseball

  "The Babe Ruth Story". Book by Babe Ruth and Bob Considine, 1948.

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• I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Weed, Art, Winning

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• Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

  Louise Slaughter

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

  Lyman Abbott

  Flower, Hoe, Affection

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.16

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• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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• This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

  Joseph Conrad

  Butterfly, Men, Littles

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.198, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

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• What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, What If, Failing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

  Larry Holmes

  Agriculture, Rich, Filthy

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• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  Ric Ocasek

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Blow, Men, Hair

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

  Conrad Burns

  Distance, School, Technology

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• I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Two, Wheels, Grew Up

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Doctors, Two

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• I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Awful, May, Common

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• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  Faye Dunaway

  Daughter, Mother, Passion

  Faye Dunaway, Betsy Sharkey (1998). “Looking for Gatsby”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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