Dust Heaps Quotes

#1. I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Be careful crossing above the waterfall, it's a fatal spot.

Karl Meltzer

#3. The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

Ezra Pound

#4. History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand - and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

Washington Irving

#5. He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend.

John Edward Williams

#6. "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

#7. I don't believe in your God. And he sure as hell doesn't believe in me.

Max Hawthorne

#8. Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer's. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons.

Donald Hall

#9. No real adventure ever started by waiting patiently by a doorstep.

Ruth Cardello