Dirt Quotes - Page 10

• The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

  Maxim Gorky

  Morning, Children, Dirty

  Maxim Gorky (2017). “The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

  Tyson Chandler

  Tree, Grandfather, Peaches

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• I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

  Josh Turner

  Girl, Country, Real

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• When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Mother, Kids, Cells

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• My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

  Sebastian Junger

  Wife, House, Tree

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• I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

  Taylor Kinney

  Football, Country, Fun

  "Taylor Kinney Exclusive Interview the Vampire Diaries". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

  Elvis Costello

  Revenge, Retribution, Graves

  Song: Tramp the Dirt Down, Album: Spike, 1989

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• Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

  Gary Soto

  Nature, Hair, Blades

  Gary Soto (1992). “Neighborhood Odes”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Irreverence, Form

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Insanity

  Song: Downtown Dirt

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• I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Country, Thinking, Chicago

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• As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.

  Tom Paxton

  School, Boys, Air

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Crazy, Dating

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• My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Children, Independent, Riding Your Bike

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• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  Waris Dirie

  Animal, Long Ago, Hands

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• Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

  Emilio Estevez

  Home, Hands, Everyday

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• Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

  Al Yankovic

  Night, Reality, Dinner

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• If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

  Don Henley

  Reality, Worry, Dollars

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• Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Giving, Bullets

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

  Curtis Jackson

  Kings, Found, Egotism

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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• If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.

  Mary Douglas

  Unique, Order, Hygiene

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". Book by Mary Douglas, 1966.

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• It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Rip, Safety Pins

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• Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Lasts

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• Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

  Criss Jami

  Jobs, Laughter, Heart

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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