Dirt Quotes - Page 19

• Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Past, Dust, Littles

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• Come hither, all ye empty things,
  Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;
  Who float upon the tide of state,
  Come hither, and behold your fate.
  Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
  How very mean a thing's a Duke;
  From all his ill-got honours flung,
  Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Mean, Fate

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.283

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• guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

  Toni Morrison

  Vanity, Skins, News

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• I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

  Rumi

  Wind, Rushing, Rose

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• The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Dog, Two

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mother, Father, Lying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.32, Vintage Canada

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• The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

  Robert Cormier

  Hate, Flower, Opposites

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• when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

  Martin Amis

  Rain, Eye, Climbing

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.72, Random House

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• Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Cancer, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.45, Penguin Group

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• Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

  Jo Brand

  Pieces, Humans, Human Beings

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• I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Differences, Friendly, Earth

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Struggle, Losing Control

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.124, Penguin

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• You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.

  Terry Bozzio

  Smell, Noses, Sticks

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Women, Flower, Water

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2017). “God-Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.65, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

  Robert Herjavec

  Grandmother, Poor, Raised

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• I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Stars, Garden, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

  Richard Brautigan

  Children, Games, Shells

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Mean, Light

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• I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Morning, Home

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.162, Penguin

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• I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

  James Caan

  Cowboy, Cells, People

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

  Kirk Cameron

  Gay, Men, Garden

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

  Wyclef Jean

  The End Of The Day, Return, Ends

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Land, Ideas

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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