Eat Dirt Sayings

#1. Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

Jeff Garlin

#2. Tomorrow I'll take you out to see the gold beetles. They're amazing: they eat dirt and poop out gold ore.

Lev Grossman

#3. It was like a sickness.
It was like the uncontrollable urge
to eat dirt.

Cynthia Lowen

#4. I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

Pete Wentz

#5. People in Haiti eat dirt because it gives their starving bodies a false sense of satisfaction. But mud pies don't fill. They merely mask real hunger. [...] I saw the mud pies as a metaphor for the life of any Christian who has ever looked to something or someone other than God for fulfillment.

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#6. People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

Oliver Evans

#7. When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

Sylvester Stallone

#8. Eat dirt evil doer!

A.R. Von

#9. It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Erica Jong

#10. Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order

David Gerrold

#11. But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing

Abigail Thomas

#12. To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.

Dallas Willard

#13. You can't sit down in a bachelor's house without getting sick with cooties from the dirt and built-up grime, but you can eat off the barrel of his gun.

Deb Baker

#14. Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

Lubos Motl

#15. We all eat a handful of dirt before we die, who cares if it tastes like cherries?

Thomas Siddell

#16. I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

Charlotte Rampling

#17. By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

Adam Ross

#18. When I was four I was watching ants walking up Stove and she ran and splatted them all so they wouldn't eat our food. One minute they were alive and the next minute they were dirt. I cried so my eyes nearly melted off.

Emma Donoghue

#19. I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!

Shia Labeouf

#20. all that he had ever been, at every moment of his life, was being transferred to safer keeping. Even as one David Bowman ceased to exist, another became immortal.

Arthur C. Clarke

#21. I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

Eartha Kitt