Dirt Quotes - Page 4

• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

  Karl Marx

  May

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.51, VM eBooks

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• Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Revenge, Eating, Empty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.60, BookBaby

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• Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Money

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• Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

  Philip Schaff

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1970). “History of the Christian Church”

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• When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Buddhism, Rocks

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• Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Fire, Cleveland

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• Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Reality, Delay

  Paul Theroux (2009). “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Dirty, Son

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• There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Literacy, Shovels

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• Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sexy, Eye, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.40, Penguin

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• I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Writing, Perfect, Choices

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• Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

  Sharon Stone

  Dancing, Pedestal, Complaining

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

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• Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Mother, Loneliness, Moving

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books

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• Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Children, Fire, Wind

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• If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

  Sean O'Casey

  Eye, Past, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1981). “Inishfallen, fare thee well”

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• When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Famous Motivational, Losing

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• Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Life, Team, Player

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• Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Air, Balls

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• Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Waiting, Listening, Dying

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• Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

  Sean Kingston

  Beautiful, Girl, Suicidal

  Song: Beautiful Girls

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• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

  Jill McCorkle

  Past, Moon, Blue

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• The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

  William Klein

  Photography, New York, Lying

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• The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Differences, Soul, Important

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