Dirt Quotes - Page 6

• My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Matter, Kind, Autobiography

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, United States, Dams

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• Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.

  Walter Winchell

  Tombstone, Lying, Wells

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• If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.

  Barbara Johnson

  Regret, Flower, Adversity

  "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around".

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• ...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here and there and scattering my emotional and intellectual possessions. There was no point in pretending that I had not fallen, for when we are stretched out in the dirt we must pick ourselves up and brush off our clothes. This then, in a sense, is what I did, reviewing my considered opinions on marriage, constancy, man's nature, and the importance of love. When I had picked up my possessions and repaired my appearance, I fell asleep.

  John Cheever

  Love, Fall, Men

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

  Jane Jacobs

  Awe And Wonder, Water, Tree

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.65, Vintage

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• I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

  David Blaine

  Water, Burying

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

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• If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Winning, Doubt, Filth

  "Jairam Ramesh's legacy is an Indian environment ministry with an identity", www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Heart, Water

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• I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

  Mike Rowe

  Fun, Dirty, Hard Work

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• A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

  Paul Mooney

  Brooms, Knows

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• I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Country, War, Flower

  Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• The very first as a cardinal rule for a person to build trust is to do must only that what is humanly just as that helps to wipe and wither away those parasitic people stuck to his life as dirt and dust.

  Anuj

  Dust, People, Wipe

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• I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Thinking, Clouds

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• It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Heart, Men, Filth

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• To clean your face thoroughly, even do a scrub, and let it sit and make sure your pores are clean before you go to club. If it sits on your face overnight, dirt just builds up. Even just laying there the whole night, stuff gets on your face, so anything else there is just really not good.

  Sasha Pieterse

  Night, Clubs, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Doors, Blood

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• It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement, Names, Long

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• I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Past, Hands, Hygiene

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this question: “Do I respect the work I’m doing?” If the answer to the latter question is NO, then the answer to the former question will probably be NO too. If this is the case, wait a few weeks, then ask yourself the same two questions. If the answers are still NO, quit.

  Ken Baumann

  Two, Waiting, Answers

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• There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

  J. D. Daniels

  Rainy Day, Rocks, Museums

  J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House

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• Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illustration, Dust, Age

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.213, editionNEXT.com

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• My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.

  Theodore Roethke

  Mother, Boys, Hands

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.83, Anchor

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• We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

  Joel Salatin

  Wrestling, Animal, Important

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