Top 28 Dung Heap Quotes
#1. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
Wendell Berry
#2. You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
Aravind Adiga
#3. It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#4. Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who will be saved from the coming destruction.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
#6. Like an inspired and prolific poet, who never refuses to spread beauty to the humblest places, which until now did not seem to share the domain of art, the sun still warmed the bountiful energy of the dung heap, of the unevenly paved yard, and of the pear tree worn down like an old serving maid.
Marcel Proust
#7. is a pearl, and a pearl buried in a dung heap is no less valuable for its surroundings.
Christine Merrill
#8. There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the beauty of a world or of a dung heap; her destiny is never to be mediocre.
Josephin Peladan
#9. Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.
Paul Auster
#10. In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
Stephen Fry
#11. He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dung heap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#12. A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth
either epileptic or dead.
Jean Baudrillard
#13. Stress kills when you fuel the initial reaction with negative thoughts, aggressive behavior, belief and trust in the uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms it causes. Don't fuel it, and watch how fast stress disappears.
Charles F. Glassman
#15. Oh, goodie," Puck said as I stepped forward. "I'm going to have a rash in the most uncomfortable places.
Julie Kagawa
#16. Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
Rick Springfield
#17. There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.
Glenn Greenwald
#18. But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.
Joan Rivers
#19. Saudi women like makeup. And I'm OK with that. If that's what you want to make you feel good, go for it.
Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
#20. I felt isolated in my misery. I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost.
Paula Hawkins
#21. You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann
#23. If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.
Dorothy Hamill
#24. As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Kenneth Bock
#25. I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
Richard Brautigan
#26. Love, he thought. That too is love. The old miracle. It not only casts a rainbow of dreams against the gray sky of facts - it also sheds romantic light upon a heap of dung - a miracle and a mad mockery. Suddenly he had the strange feeling of having become, in a remote way, an accomplice.
Erich Maria Remarque
#27. Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.
Emily Henderson
#28. The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
Winston Churchill
