Quotes about Dust

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I. Votes: 4

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. Votes: 4

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Votes: 4

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again. Votes: 4

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Votes: 4

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. Votes: 4

Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust. Votes: 3

Dust is the parent of a star! Votes: 3

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold. Votes: 3

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me. Votes: 3

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed. Votes: 3

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope. Votes: 3

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! Votes: 3

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes Votes: 3

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he Votes: 3

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you. Votes: 3

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen. Votes: 3

Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience. Votes: 3

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. Votes: 3

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. Votes: 3

Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. Votes: 3

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world. Votes: 3

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again. Votes: 3

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get. Votes: 3

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. Votes: 3

What do you do to your hair?" "Dust, hair gel, and a little gun oil." "Ever thought of patenting the recipe?" "No. Votes: 3

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. Votes: 3

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease. Votes: 3

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. Votes: 3

God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God. Votes: 3

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Votes: 3

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. Votes: 3

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. Votes: 3

That great dust-heap called 'history'. Votes: 2

I'm full of dust and guitars. Votes: 2

You either make dust or eat dust. Votes: 2

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. Votes: 2

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Votes: 2

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. Votes: 2

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. Votes: 2

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. Votes: 2

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Votes: 2

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Votes: 2

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. Votes: 2

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. Votes: 2

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Votes: 2

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. Votes: 2

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. Votes: 2

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. Votes: 2

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. Votes: 2

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! Votes: 2

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. Votes: 2

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Votes: 2

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. Votes: 2

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. Votes: 2

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. 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

Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust. Votes: 2

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. Votes: 2

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Votes: 2

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. Votes: 2

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. Votes: 2

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. Votes: 2

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. Votes: 2

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. Votes: 2

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. Votes: 2

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid. Votes: 2

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Votes: 2

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue. Votes: 2

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. Votes: 2

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. Votes: 2

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. Votes: 2

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists. Votes: 0

I'm covered with loser dust. Votes: 0

...trail dust is thicker'n blood.... Votes: 0

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck. Votes: 0

All books are merely delayed dust. Votes: 0

...We are but dust and shadows... Votes: 0

You can't really dust for vomit. Votes: 0

God sinks into dust before man. Votes: 0

I'm full of dust and guitars... Votes: 0

History is a great dust heap. Votes: 0

Facts cling to photographs like dust. Votes: 0

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever. Votes: 0

Yesterday's dust determined today's range of vision Votes: 0

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust Votes: 0

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, Votes: 0

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust. Votes: 0

I would rather be ashes than dust. Votes: 0

A man thinks all dust stays outdoors. Votes: 0

In my case dust has become Gold Votes: 0

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows. Votes: 0

Life is too short to dust every week. Votes: 0

A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust. Votes: 0

I will be dust, but dust in love Votes: 0

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust. Votes: 0

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul. Votes: 0

When a man dies he kicks the dust. Votes: 0

We are a blend of dust and divinity. Votes: 0

Houses are full of things that gather dust Votes: 0

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust. Votes: 0

Just like dust, we settle in this town. Votes: 0

Look what a little vain dust we are! Votes: 0

Angels, pixies, faerie dust Treading love and living lust. Votes: 0

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution. Votes: 0

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. Votes: 0

We start out as little bits of disconnected dust. Votes: 0

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible. Votes: 0

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda. Votes: 0

Music washes away the dust of every day life. Votes: 0

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust. Votes: 0

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. Votes: 0

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life. Votes: 0

The air smelled of paper and dust and years. Votes: 0

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust. Votes: 0

All we are is dust in the wind, dude. Votes: 0

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata. Votes: 0

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it. Votes: 0

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again. Votes: 0

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond. Votes: 0

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. Votes: 0

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset. Votes: 0

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. Votes: 0

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust. Votes: 0

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. Votes: 0

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. Votes: 0

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. Votes: 0

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. Votes: 0

There's not enough dust to cloud our love for freedom. Votes: 0

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.] Votes: 0

Most of what we see in the universe is dust. Votes: 0

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. Votes: 0

Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust. Votes: 0

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows") Votes: 0

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning. Votes: 0

Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community. Votes: 0

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. Votes: 0

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine. Votes: 0

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER. Votes: 0

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up. Votes: 0

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl. Votes: 0

Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall? Votes: 0

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God. Votes: 0

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts. Votes: 0

All actions without love are just like dust in the air. Votes: 0

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust. Votes: 0

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust. Votes: 0

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. Votes: 0

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle. Votes: 0

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life Votes: 0

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. Votes: 0

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart. Votes: 0

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam Votes: 0

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. Votes: 0

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike. Votes: 0

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust. Votes: 0

It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back. Votes: 0

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. Votes: 0

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust. Votes: 0

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more. Votes: 0

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust. Votes: 0

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations. Votes: 0

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust Votes: 0

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust. Votes: 0

A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising. Votes: 0

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. Votes: 0

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm Votes: 0

She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes. Votes: 0

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. Votes: 0

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. Votes: 0

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust! Votes: 0

Man is mortal; we are dust and to dust we shall return Votes: 0

If you fall, rise up, shake off the dust and try again. Votes: 0

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust. Votes: 0

I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. Votes: 0

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust. Votes: 0

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return. Votes: 0

Angel dust won't go away. Somefolks who were smoking it were going away. Votes: 0

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. Votes: 0

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes. Votes: 0

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Votes: 0

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. Votes: 0

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. Votes: 0

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. Votes: 0

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust. Votes: 0

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. Votes: 0

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust. Votes: 0

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust. Votes: 0

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. Votes: 0

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake. Votes: 0

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust. Votes: 0

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth. Votes: 0

The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity. Votes: 0

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. Votes: 0

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. Votes: 0

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! Votes: 0

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. Votes: 0

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. Votes: 0

Thou turnest worthless stones into glittering diamonds and a precious diamond into flying dust. Votes: 0

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed. Votes: 0

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. Votes: 0

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. Votes: 0

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Votes: 0

Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond. Votes: 0

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight. Votes: 0

Anything a dog touches must be washed seven times, the final time in dust Votes: 0

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them. Votes: 0

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin. Votes: 0

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it. Votes: 0

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. Votes: 0

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. Votes: 0

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind. Votes: 0

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust. Votes: 0

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how. Votes: 0

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust. Votes: 0

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham. Votes: 0

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again. Votes: 0

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him. Votes: 0

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust. Votes: 0

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust. Votes: 0

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Votes: 0

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away. Votes: 0

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground. Votes: 0

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists. Votes: 0

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. Votes: 0

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Votes: 0

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just Votes: 0

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust. Votes: 0

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. Votes: 0

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets. Votes: 0

You need to have faith and trust, Moira.""And a little bit of pixie dust? Votes: 0

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. Votes: 0

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.' Votes: 0

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life. Votes: 0

All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap. Votes: 0

I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe. Votes: 0

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. Votes: 0

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust. Votes: 0

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. Votes: 0

There's no end. There's no endto this world, everlasting.We crumble to dust in its arms. Votes: 0

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. Votes: 0

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history. Votes: 0

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind. Votes: 0

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? Votes: 0

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. Votes: 0

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. Votes: 0

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet. Votes: 0

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. Votes: 0

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. Votes: 0

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end. Votes: 0

Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day? Votes: 0

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust? Votes: 0

-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust. Votes: 0

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. Votes: 0

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants. Votes: 0

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must. Votes: 0

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better. Votes: 0

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside. Votes: 0

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. Votes: 0

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty. Votes: 0

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust Votes: 0

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. Votes: 0

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. Votes: 0

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. Votes: 0

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Votes: 0

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. Votes: 0

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. Votes: 0

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence. Votes: 0

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain Votes: 0

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind. Votes: 0

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. Votes: 0

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust... Votes: 0

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. Votes: 0

What do you want exactly? (Fang) An end to the mistreatment of small, fluffy dust bunnies. (Thorn) Votes: 0

A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air. Votes: 0

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. Votes: 0

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away. Votes: 0

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust Votes: 0

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, Votes: 0

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews. Votes: 0

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. Votes: 0

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time. Votes: 0

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. Votes: 0

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again. Votes: 0

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket. Votes: 0

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise! Votes: 0

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless. Votes: 0

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won .. Votes: 0

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. Votes: 0

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead. Votes: 0

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. Votes: 0

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust. Votes: 0

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. Votes: 0

I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust Votes: 0

Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand. Votes: 0

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something. Votes: 0

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust. Votes: 0

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust Votes: 0

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. Votes: 0

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Votes: 0

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. Votes: 0

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. Votes: 0

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? Votes: 0

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. Votes: 0

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust. Votes: 0

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial? Votes: 0

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything. Votes: 0

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog. Votes: 0

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust. Votes: 0

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. Votes: 0

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. Votes: 0

it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued. Votes: 0

They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it. Votes: 0

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. Votes: 0

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ... Votes: 0

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came. Votes: 0

Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night. Votes: 0

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. Votes: 0

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? Votes: 0

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Votes: 0

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew? Votes: 0

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway. Votes: 0

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe Votes: 0

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind. Votes: 0

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens. Votes: 0

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless. Votes: 0

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Votes: 0

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun! Votes: 0

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust. Votes: 0

You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit. Votes: 0

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year. Votes: 0

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. Votes: 0

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. Votes: 0

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. Votes: 0

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story. Votes: 0

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. Votes: 0

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust... Votes: 0

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things. Votes: 0

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you. Votes: 0

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. Votes: 0

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Votes: 0

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. Votes: 0

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust. Votes: 0

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

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product. Votes: 0

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome. Votes: 0

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind. Votes: 0

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. Votes: 0

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust. Votes: 0

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold. Votes: 0

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight 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

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. Votes: 0

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower. Votes: 0

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. Votes: 0

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

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. Votes: 0

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He's not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time. Votes: 0

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men. Votes: 0

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. Votes: 0

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. Votes: 0

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again. Votes: 0

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. Votes: 0

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on. Votes: 0

I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust. Votes: 0

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0. Votes: 0

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness. Votes: 0

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... Votes: 0

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets. Votes: 0

She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death. Votes: 0

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out. Votes: 0

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. Votes: 0

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. Votes: 0

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame. Votes: 0

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. Votes: 0

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail. Votes: 0

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. Votes: 0

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. Votes: 0

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. Votes: 0

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice. Votes: 0

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds. Votes: 0

He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men's feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart. Votes: 0

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies. Votes: 0

Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight. Votes: 0

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star. Votes: 0

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. Votes: 0

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy. Votes: 0

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking. Votes: 0

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust. Votes: 0

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust. Votes: 0

The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose! Votes: 0

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. Votes: 0

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? Votes: 0

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. Votes: 0

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. Votes: 0

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. Votes: 0

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... Votes: 0

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. Votes: 0

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. Votes: 0

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust. Votes: 0

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out. Votes: 0

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust? Votes: 0

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust. Votes: 0

a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton. Votes: 0

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. Votes: 0

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air. Votes: 0

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight Votes: 0

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. Votes: 0

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up. Votes: 0

...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you... Votes: 0

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.' Votes: 0

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. Votes: 0

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. Votes: 0

...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone. Votes: 0

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return Votes: 0

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. Votes: 0

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. Votes: 0

Life is fleeting, Samuel said. A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together. Votes: 0

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Votes: 0

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. Votes: 0

We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.' Votes: 0

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze. Votes: 0

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them. Votes: 0

It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen. Votes: 0

No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies. Votes: 0

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor. Votes: 0

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. Votes: 0

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. Votes: 0

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. Votes: 0

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth. Votes: 0

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes Votes: 0

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. Votes: 0

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around. Votes: 0

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. Votes: 0

We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust. Votes: 0

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate. Votes: 0

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight. Votes: 0

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses. Votes: 0

The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan. Votes: 0

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! Votes: 0

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. Votes: 0

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.... Votes: 0

Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point. Votes: 0

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour! Votes: 0

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by. Votes: 0

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. Votes: 0

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violetBut gold - smells of nothing. Votes: 0

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room. Votes: 0

Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here. Votes: 0

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body. Votes: 0

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful. Votes: 0

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. Votes: 0

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. Votes: 0

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust. Votes: 0

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Votes: 0

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again. Votes: 0

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. Votes: 0

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. Votes: 0

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. Votes: 0

When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay. Votes: 0

Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust. Votes: 0

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt... Votes: 0

Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco. Votes: 0

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. 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

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. 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

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. ("The Face of the Skies") Votes: 0

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can. Votes: 0

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. Votes: 0

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust. Votes: 0

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop. Votes: 0

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. Votes: 0

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being. Votes: 0

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Votes: 0

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. Votes: 0

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust. Votes: 0

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they. Votes: 0

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust. Votes: 0

We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning." -Pg.242- Votes: 0

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies. Votes: 0

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust? Votes: 0

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out. Votes: 0

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: 0

Glenn is going to bring a couple of sumo costumes down so we might have a dust-up in the technical area, that should make good TV Votes: 0

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. Votes: 0

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust. Votes: 0

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind! Votes: 0

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs. Votes: 0

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return. Votes: 0

I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty. Votes: 0

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust. Votes: 0

Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust. Votes: 0

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. Votes: 0

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret's a secret still. Votes: 0

While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were Votes: 0

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust. Votes: 0

..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ... Votes: 0

This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones Votes: 0

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it. Votes: 0