Top 100 The Dirt Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb
#3. Because we all end up in the dirt at the end.
Chuck Wendig
#4. At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
Czeslaw Milosz
#5. Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there.
Elizabeth Alexander
#6. Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.
Walter Winchell
#7. Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. Your pants are filthy, as if you rolled in the dirt before coming here. I would expect nothing less from the boy I remember
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#9. I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!
Ashley Benson
#10. People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.
Madonna Ciccone
#11. Shit, man, if you see a dog scratching at the dirt trying to dig something up, walk away real fast, he said, then pulled a little square of paper from his pocket and swallowed whatever was folded inside.
Cole Alpaugh
#12. No man but Emerson would have considered walking across the fields in full evening kit, much less expect me to trail my red satin skirts and lace ruffles through the dirt; but Emerson is unique. When he behaves irrationally it is necessary to be firm with him. He
Elizabeth Peters
#13. I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.
Jan Struther
#14. I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
Matthew McConaughey
#16. Sometimes it's the dirt between your toes that gives you the clearest picture in your mind. Grounding yourself aligns the dirt between your toes and the vision in your mind.
Tony Curl
#17. brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed
James Cannon
#18. So rather than spending my golden years searching for the meaning of my life, I rather believe I'll just keep on trying to make some meaning out of my life right up until I pitch over nose first into the dirt for that little nap. - Tom King (I Ain't Afraid of No Grim Reaper)
Tom King
#19. I can see that everyone else is doing exactly what they wanted with the rest of their lives. They're all at the gate, pawing the dirt and ready to run, and I've already got a lame leg and am this close to being taken around back of the stable to be put out of my misery.
Sarah Dessen
#20. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice Walker
#21. She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.
Kat Rosenfield
#22. And Ulysses stopped up his ears against the siren's song," recited Victor, pulling the plugs from his own ears as Serena collapsed to the dirt lot, "for it was death.
V.E Schwab
#23. When someone falls," Mark said, "you don't throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It's the Christian thing to do.
Courtney Milan
#24. I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
James Caan
#25. The beautiful lotus blossoms that come out of the dirt make life so magnificent, magical, and joyful. They are the most miraculous and mysterious possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#27. We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be for us the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
John Green
#28. I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
Robert Byrd
#29. We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.
Margaret Atwood
#30. Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'm not worth the dirt beneath your shoes.
Sarah J. Maas
#31. When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.
Amanda Hocking
#32. I had no fucking life before you. You are my life. Without you, I might as well take a shotgun to my head and join you in the dirt because, Tess, if you leave me - if you're so fucking weak not to fight, then that is what will happen to me. You'll crucify me.
Pepper Winters
#33. I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.
Jay-Z
#34. You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.
David Letterman
#35. Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn't mean we aren't digging in the dirt anymore - it's just that we know better where to dig.
Sarah Parcak
#36. The city was different back then
poor and crumbling
kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.
Candace Bushnell
#37. Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.
Paula H. Deen
#38. It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.
Bernard Hopkins
#39. Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.
David Gemmell
#40. 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
#41. There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Every troublemaker's excuse! Put it up your bum with the rest of the dirt!
Stephen King
#46. I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful
Gary Vaynerchuk
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.
Bruce Springsteen
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
Wendell Berry
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together.
M.F. Moonzajer
#59. 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
#60. Life is just seeds, he says shrugging. You know, you plant in the dirt you're given. It's all you've got. You water, you tend, and sometimes seeds don't take. Sometimes it all goes away from you.
Peggy Riley
#61. M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!"
"Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you.
Georgette Heyer
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.
Ruth Wilson
#67. You find whatever you focus on. If you focus on the dirt, I assure you, you will find it. But if you concentrate on the gold, it will appear. "I'm looking for gold," is the mantra of the drama-free, high-performance leader. Make it your mantra and notice what you discover.
Dennis McIntee
#68. Corinthians 1:3-4 where it states how we are to comfort others in the same manner in which we were comforted. Put another way: the dirt that was meant to bury us can be used as soil to grow another.
Dr. Ronnie W. Goines
#69. 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
#70. I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
Jane Elliot
#71. Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.
Janice Tanton
#72. The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.
Julianna Baggott
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.
Brigid Berlin
#76. I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.
Jon Tester
#77. 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
#78. I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.
Neal Stephenson
#79. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.
Walt Whitman
#80. Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!
Vera Nazarian
#81. When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
Elvis Costello
#82. Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods?
George R R Martin
#83. You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.
Roz Inga
#84. We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars; now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.
Jonathan Nolan
#85. My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more.
Katherine McIntyre
#86. In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.
Russell Wilson
#87. As Pushkin put it: He had no itch to dig for glories deep in the dirt that time has laid.
Haruki Murakami
#88. All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home.
Christina Stead
#89. Water was a state of mind. If you think it your friend when you swim in the river or wash away the dirt, why call it your enemy when it comes from the heavens? From the cup of the gods themselves.
Kate Furnivall
#90. My luggage was in the dirt."
I raised my eyebrows innocently. "Oh, it must have fallen out." Like your brains.
Renee Carter
#91. My virginity's still intact, Guy," I say as I stand up and brush the dirt from my butt. "Yours, on the other hand, has been gone for so long I've seen it on the side of a milk carton.
Cheryl McIntyre
#92. When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
Gautama Buddha
#93. Almost always things just are what they are, almost always there's no glittering ore hidden under the dirt.
Ben H. Winters
#94. Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.
Charles Keating
#95. Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#96. The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
R.C. Sproul
#97. I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.
K. Webster
#98. My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
Tyson Chandler
#99. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.
Conn Iggulden
#100. I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.
Phyllis Diller
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