Quotes about Dirt

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Votes: 5

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Votes: 4

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you. Votes: 4

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Votes: 4

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Votes: 4

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat. Votes: 4

Dirt is matter in the wrong place. Votes: 3

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material. Votes: 3

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place. Votes: 3

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair. Votes: 3

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family... Votes: 3

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter. Votes: 3

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara. Votes: 3

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

'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. Votes: 3

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. Votes: 3

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty. Votes: 3

He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. "Mmm. You smell so good." "Oh, yeah," I said, smirking. "I call this new perfume "˜Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.' " "Dirt and sweat. Very sexy. Votes: 3

I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see that and Joe Dirt, and Just Shoot Me is a little older, so I wanted stuff for everybody. Votes: 3

Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt. Votes: 3

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers. Votes: 2

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich. Votes: 2

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt. Votes: 2

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it. Votes: 2

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery Votes: 2

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold. Votes: 2

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want. Votes: 2

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. Votes: 2

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone. Votes: 2

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. Votes: 2

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. Votes: 2

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. Votes: 2

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. Votes: 2

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. Votes: 2

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real. Votes: 2

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. Votes: 2

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. Votes: 2

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. Votes: 2

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things. Votes: 2

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. Votes: 2

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing. Votes: 2

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. Votes: 2

I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box. Votes: 2

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Votes: 2

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. Votes: 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. Votes: 2

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down. Votes: 2

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. Votes: 2

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Votes: 2

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. Votes: 2

Eat dirt evil doer! Votes: 0

Money is a necessity; so is dirt. Votes: 0

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. Votes: 0

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers. Votes: 0

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground. Votes: 0

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off. Votes: 0

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind. Votes: 0

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt. Votes: 0

The world is made of sugar and dirt. Votes: 0

How dare you treat your soil like dirt! Votes: 0

I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. Votes: 0

Six feet of dirt make all men equal. Votes: 0

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower Votes: 0

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. Votes: 0

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt. Votes: 0

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass. Votes: 0

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart. Votes: 0

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it. Votes: 0

If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold! Votes: 0

Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure. Votes: 0

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt. Votes: 0

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again. Votes: 0

He treats me like the dirt under my feet. Votes: 0

They are again in the dirt in the desert Votes: 0

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt. Votes: 0

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money. Votes: 0

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones. Votes: 0

Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt. Votes: 0

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**. Votes: 0

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore. Votes: 0

What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max Votes: 0

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse. Votes: 0

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. Votes: 0

Today I am dirty , but tomorrow I'll be just dirt. Votes: 0

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be. Votes: 0

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor. Votes: 0

I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face. Votes: 0

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it Votes: 0

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! Votes: 0

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. Votes: 0

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned. Votes: 0

Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean Votes: 0

We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt. Votes: 0

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well. Votes: 0

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt. Votes: 0

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. Votes: 0

Can't sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt Votes: 0

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. Votes: 0

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. Votes: 0

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. Votes: 0

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others. Votes: 0

I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt. Votes: 0

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean. Votes: 0

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt. Votes: 0

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads. Votes: 0

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. Votes: 0

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial. Votes: 0

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. Votes: 0

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt. Votes: 0

The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025. Votes: 0

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten. Votes: 0

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? Votes: 0

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt. Votes: 0

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me? Votes: 0

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way. Votes: 0

You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good. Votes: 0

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND. Votes: 0

Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones. Votes: 0

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt. Votes: 0

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs. Votes: 0

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window. Votes: 0

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. Votes: 0

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that. Votes: 0

We are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt. Votes: 0

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky) Votes: 0

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself Votes: 0

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. Votes: 0

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful. Votes: 0

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else Votes: 0

Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one. Votes: 0

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard. Votes: 0

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Votes: 0

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. Votes: 0

You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom. Votes: 0

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers. Votes: 0

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty. Votes: 0

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. Votes: 0

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context. Votes: 0

You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again. Votes: 0

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is. Votes: 0

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. Votes: 0

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better. Votes: 0

It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see. Votes: 0

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine! Votes: 0

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt. Votes: 0

Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt. Votes: 0

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt. Votes: 0

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. Votes: 0

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed. Votes: 0

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves. Votes: 0

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. Votes: 0

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids. Votes: 0

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time. Votes: 0

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! Votes: 0

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt. Votes: 0

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes. Votes: 0

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt. Votes: 0

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. Votes: 0

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt. Votes: 0

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about. Votes: 0

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt. Votes: 0

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. Votes: 0

After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride. Votes: 0

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Votes: 0

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food. Votes: 0

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down. Votes: 0

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. Votes: 0

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. Votes: 0

A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold Votes: 0

If you play with dirt, no matter if you win or lose, either way you will get dirty. Votes: 0

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. Votes: 0

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them. Votes: 0

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. Votes: 0

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over. Votes: 0

If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced. Votes: 0

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. Votes: 0

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned. Votes: 0

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt." Votes: 0

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt. Votes: 0

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt. Votes: 0

I make niggas eat dirt and fart dust, Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Я" Us. Votes: 0

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful Votes: 0

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal. Votes: 0

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice. Votes: 0

...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. Votes: 0

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago. Votes: 0

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. Votes: 0

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. Votes: 0

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. Votes: 0

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. Votes: 0

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff. Votes: 0

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset. Votes: 0

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. Votes: 0

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me Votes: 0

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States. Votes: 0

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt. Votes: 0

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods. Votes: 0

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. Votes: 0

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. Votes: 0

I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living. Votes: 0

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should. Votes: 0

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up. Votes: 0

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth. Votes: 0

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. Votes: 0

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. Votes: 0

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you. Votes: 0

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American. Votes: 0

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again. Votes: 0

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? Votes: 0

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. Votes: 0

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. Votes: 0

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings. Votes: 0

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt. Votes: 0

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. Votes: 0

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common. Votes: 0

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt. Votes: 0

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt. Votes: 0

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders. Votes: 0

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound. Votes: 0

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt. Votes: 0

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. Votes: 0

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from. Votes: 0

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers. Votes: 0

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores. Votes: 0

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road. Votes: 0

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything. Votes: 0

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. Votes: 0

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds. Votes: 0

Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well. Votes: 0

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. Votes: 0

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. Votes: 0

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt. Votes: 0

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life? Votes: 0

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? Votes: 0

We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box. Votes: 0

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. Votes: 0

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar. Votes: 0

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. Votes: 0

Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over. Votes: 0

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs. Votes: 0

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Votes: 0

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike. Votes: 0

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life. Votes: 0

My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt. Votes: 0

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. Votes: 0

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom. Votes: 0

I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt. Votes: 0

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation. Votes: 0

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention. Votes: 0

Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean. Votes: 0

I want a moon canoe, because have you ever tried paddling through dirt? Love is a journey, and I try to travel as efficiently as I can. Votes: 0

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor. Votes: 0

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain. Votes: 0

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish. Votes: 0

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty? Votes: 0

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can. Votes: 0

I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. Votes: 0

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. Votes: 0

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion. Votes: 0

Or maybe nobody can fill that special place in her heart because I was nobody. And the only thing that fills a hole is a hole. And dirt. Votes: 0

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. Votes: 0

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt. Votes: 0

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window. Votes: 0

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc. Votes: 0

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in. Votes: 0

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me. Votes: 0

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place. Votes: 0

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena. Votes: 0

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder. Votes: 0

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming. Votes: 0

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes. Votes: 0

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves. Votes: 0

I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start; people don't want to hear about how your heart has melted into the dirt under your house. Votes: 0

Logan, don't be an ass.I have been sleeping in mud. I'm covered in dirt and blood and these were my favorite pants before I landed in raccoon shit. Votes: 0

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself. Votes: 0

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. Votes: 0

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. Votes: 0

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig. Votes: 0

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job. Votes: 0

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. Votes: 0

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers. Votes: 0

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy." Votes: 0

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.' Votes: 0

You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''''I just applied for a job as a tree,'' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding. Votes: 0

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. Votes: 0

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet Votes: 0

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt. Votes: 0

I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures. Votes: 0

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! Votes: 0

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait. Votes: 0

There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap. Votes: 0

I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on my face. I'll never have a glorious handlebar moustache. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards. Votes: 0

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent. Votes: 0

Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street. Votes: 0

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to the air. It was a mixture of odors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.... Votes: 0

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work? Votes: 0

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy. Votes: 0

it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far. Votes: 0

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins. Votes: 0

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.' Votes: 0

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.' Votes: 0

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind. Votes: 0

You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him. Votes: 0

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt? Votes: 0

Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it. Votes: 0

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Votes: 0

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts. Votes: 0

Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it. Votes: 0

Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now. Votes: 0

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself. Votes: 0

What have I become?My sweetest friend; everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt. Votes: 0

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Votes: 0

Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again. Votes: 0