Dirt Quotes - Page 7

• In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

  Robert Ringer

  Jewels, Order, People

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• If someone takes something from me I’m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted sick hands and say it is mine! And I am going to punch you in the face and push you in the dirt because this is the teachers! These are our tools and you sick people need to deal with us and the children we teach.

  Michael Mulgrew

  Teacher, Children, Hands

  "Michael Mulgrew defends Common Core: ‘You sick people need to deal with us and the children that we teach’". www.nydailynews.com. Friday, August 8.

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• I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.

  Charles Bowden

  Believe, Flower, Wine

  "Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night" by Chuck Bowden, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2014.

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• 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.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Real, Heart, Water

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

  Letitia Dean

  Broken Heart, Trying, Heart

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• A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

  Jeff Noon

  Eye, Long, Bird

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• Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to pay your money to the woman showing you the door. You see the dirt on the walls and your sorry image in the mirror.

  Karl Marlantes

  Sex, Wall, Sorry

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

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Nonsense

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  Ashley Benson

  Running, Dirty, Naughty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Strong, Motivation, Moving

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• If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  America, Different, World

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• Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

  Hilarie Burton

  Gardening, Nails, Gloves

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton", www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

  Jay-Z

  Blessing, Worst, Deserve

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• How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

  Joel Salatin

  Soil, Treats, Dare

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

  LeCrae

  Names, Return, Bigs

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• 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.

  Harold Klemp

  Yesterday, Able, Faces

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• Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

  Duke Ellington

  Sweet, Littles

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• I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Love Is, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7472, Delphi Classics

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• Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

  Chuck Close

  Painting, Cry, Make You Cry

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• During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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• Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Pavement, Grass

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• I remember everything
  What have I become?
  My sweetest friend?
  Everyone I know goes away in the end
  You could have it all
  My empire of dirt
  I will let you down
  I will make you hurt.

  Trent Reznor

  Hurt, Pain, Remembers Everything

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• Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, People, Next

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• Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Feet, Six

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