Top 100 Quotes About Dirt
#1. 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
#2. I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.
Tina Turner
#3. We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt. - Cooper, Interstellar
Christopher Nolan
#4. Guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
Toni Morrison
#5. He said that some people can live from birth to death and have no more thoughts in their heads about the reasons for living than a beetle. But that we were different, he and I. We needed more than a clod of dirt to make our rising up and lying down worth something.
Kathleen Kent
#6. What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called snirt.
Ivan Doig
#7. 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
#8. When life gives you dirt, grow flowers.
Unknown
#9. I find what's pure and clean and see that it gets all mucked up. But that's what people call information. And when you dredge up every bit of dirt from every corner of the living environment, that's what you call enhanced information.
Haruki Murakami
#10. [Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.
Robert Anton Wilson
#11. Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.
Tom Colicchio
#14. In 'Deadwood,' it was just extremely unaesthetic. They actually put underarm merkins on and covered me with dirt!
Robin Weigert
#15. There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
#16. Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
Yoko Ono
#17. Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family ...
Christopher Titus
#18. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
Iqbal Quadir
#19. So she needs a man!" Hakeswill said. "And a sergeant's widow doesn't get rogered by a stinking bit of dirt like you. It ain't right. Ain't natural. It's beneath her station, Sharpie, and it can't be allowed. Says so in the scriptures.
Bernard Cornwell
#20. God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.
Billy Graham
#21. 'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.
Luke Bryan
#22. You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.
Greg Iles
#23. I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.
Khaled Hosseini
#24. Now here I am, living in the land of tall pine trees and red dirt hills
Nancy B. Brewer
#25. He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was.
She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side.
She was exquisite.
Jo Beverley
#26. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
Anthony Liccione
#27. Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.
Emilio Estevez
#28. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.
Inger Iversen
#29. Every troublemaker's excuse! Put it up your bum with the rest of the dirt!
Stephen King
#30. and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was
Lee Child
#31. You're growing up. Maybe that's it," he said softly. "Sometimes I think the world tests us most sharply then, and we turn inward and watch ourselves with horror. But that's not the worst. We think everybody is seeing into us. Then dirt is very dirty and purity is shining white.
John Steinbeck
#32. I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful
Gary Vaynerchuk
#33. You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#34. He taught me that the whole world was a holy place. That's why he loved our old farm, loved the dirt under his feet. Everything was magic to him.
Lena Coakley
#35. You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture.
Laura Argiri
#36. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.
Betty Smith
#37. Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.
Bruce Springsteen
#38. I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
Mark Teixeira
#40. Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.
Lois Greiman
#41. Farming was a risky proposition under even the best of circumstances. Folks who toiled in the dirt could do everything right and a drought or an early freeze could come and wipe them out.
David Baldacci
#42. But certain religious leaders in London, not mere materialists, have begun in our day not to deny the highly disputable water, but to deny the indisputable dirt.
G.K. Chesterton
#43. Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
Wendell Berry
#44. [On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
Whoopi Goldberg
#45. He smiled. "we go inside."
"I'm going to get tetanus in there." I grumbled.
"Don't go rolling in piles of dirt and rusty nails and you'll be fine."
"You're an ass.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#46. I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
James Cameron
#47. My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.
Brooklyn Decker
#48. The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
Steve Lawson
#49. The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
Alexander Pope
#50. It's a road," Corey said, pointing.
"A dirt road," Hayley muttered.
"So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?
Kelley Armstrong
#51. Oh, she felt like dirt. Less than dirt. She felt like the bacteria on the dirt that earthworms ate and then pooped out. Here
T.S. Joyce
#53. Here is Margo Roth Spiegelman, five feet away from me, her lips chapped to cracking, makeup-less, dirt in her fingernails, her eyes silent. I've never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I've never seen her eyes before.
John Green
#54. I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#55. I don't have to save them all, just a few, or one, and then that one has to go out and save another one until this half-dead world begins to climb out of the grave it's standing in waiting for someone to throw dirt on it.
Dan Groat
#56. God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.
William Gurnall
#57. The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together.
M.F. Moonzajer
#58. **A Dedication from Brent Weeks to his older Brother**
For Kevin, because it's a big brother's job to make a little brother tough. What you taught me, I've needed. (But I never have been right since that dirt clod incident.)
Brent Weeks
#59. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
Wallace Stegner
#60. It's a mistake to lie to a librarian, you know. Some people assume we're shy and gullible, but we know how to dig up the dirt.
Virginia Lowell
#61. The people who make the greatest wines in the world, they love their dirt, they pick it up, they coddle it, they kiss it, they put it in a jar and it sits on their mantle in the living room, because they know. They know.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#63. What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
Terence McKenna
#64. I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop and just as matted with dirt.
Connie Willis
#66. Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
Agnes Macphail
#67. Sometimes in life you meet a femme fatale and you can refuse them nothing they treat you like dirt but even the dirt they dish out has a taste you can resist?
From the novel 'Adventures of a Dark Duke: The Pin
Russell C. Brennan
#68. A lot of men are very sloppy with the way they cheat. You can get caught from your cell phone or hanging around the wrong people while you're doing your dirt. Or you can get caught after a woman purposely leaves something in your car.
Tyrese Gibson
#69. I love you, Nora. I will think you beautiful when I have no eyes left to see. I will remember your voice when my ears go. You can't hold on to me forever, but I will hold on to you until I am nothing but dirt.
Lia Habel
#70. Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close
#72. The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Homer
#74. I gagged, trying not think about the fact that I just swallowed some of the Dirt Man as I rolled away from him.
Armentrout, Jennifer L. (2013-10-31). Sentinel (The Covenant Series Book 5) (p. 228). Spencer Hill Press. Kindle Edition.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#75. What are we going to do about this mess?" asked Riley, staring at the large pile of dirt and melted table. "I didn't see anything," said Jess. "The truth is out there," added Lindy. "Trust no one," I muttered.
Rose Montague
#76. Hatred had invaded her entire being; every cell in her body had hatred in it. She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.
R.L. Griffin
#77. Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.
Joe DeRouen
#78. If you are treated like dirt long enough, you begin to fell like dirt
Richard O'Connor
#79. I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.
Neal Stephenson
#80. I still can't think about her being there. It doesn't make sense. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely old hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? That can't be how it ends, after everything, after everything she was.
Kami Garcia
#81. I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.
Jon Tester
#82. The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.
Brigid Berlin
#83. Rub some dirt on it. S'll be fine." "Rub some dirt, then?" he repeated, unable to keep the amusement from his tone. "I like your attitude, lass.
Kresley Cole
#84. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.
Mark Twain
#85. He dropped the joint in the dirt and ran inside. It wasn't his first, and wouldn't be his last. The joint, that is. Not the kid. He was pretty sure, at this point, that he would never have sexual relations with his wife again.
Allie Burke
#86. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#87. Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#89. She spread her hands. That morning they had been soft as feathers, jeweled, polished, and perfumed. Now they were crisscrossed with blood and dirt, wearing only bruises for jewels
Patricia A. McKillip
#90. What is it you want?"
My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said.
Kim Harrison
#91. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.
Henry V. O'Neil
#92. If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden
#93. There is no girl we are not always already making into a woman from the moment she is born - making a city in the dirt next to the boot of a man. It could be rage or love in his feet. The girl could be me or any other girl.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#94. Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.
Bob Dylan
#95. When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
Marge Piercy
#96. I didn't say you weren't, but moving on the hope that some man will hire you seems a bit risky.'
'No more so than diggin' in the dirt for your dreams - only to find it's your grave you've been diggin'.
Judith Pella
#97. The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.
Walt Whitman
#98. I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt ... I can't compete with that stuff.
Matt Groening
#99. That fact alone should let you know just how deep a hole I was digging. Or would that be, already have dug? Yeah, already dug. I was about halfway to China and still throwing dirt up in the air.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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