Dirt Quotes - Page 13

• Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Dirty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size 4. I wanted it to be like the world. I think that we got there, and that was really special. I wanted texture and grit to everything. And then, you have an actress like Sarah Gadon, where you could rub dirt on her face and she'd look like she stepped off of a Vogue cover, and that's fine.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Thinking, Special, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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

  Pete Wentz

  Caves, Painter, Hanging Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.

  Chelsea Manning

  Running, Opportunity, Oklahoma

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't turn back technology and you can't turn back authoritarianism. You can't have one hand in the dirt and one hand in the crystal clear water and say that you're clean. That's just the way it is.

  El-P

  Technology, Hands, Water

  Source: www.complex.com

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Want

  Source: gawker.com

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• Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Children, Growing Up

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.

  Chip Kidd

  People, Mind, Want

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Sin, Presumptuous

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  May, Common, Kind

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• What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Needs, Need A Change

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• 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.

  Suzy Kassem

  Flower, Self Worth, Doubt

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Years, Waiting, Pieces

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Guides, Humbug

  Hermann Hesse (1963). “Steppenwolf: novel”, Harcourt School

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

  Eartha Kitt

  Country, Believe, I Can

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• I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

  Tina Turner

  Rocks, Dirt Roads, Poor

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• I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

  Steve Young

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Writing, Color, Play

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• A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful.

  Garrison Keillor

  Meaningful, Teacher, Stress

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Mason Cooley

  Religion, Purpose, Stones

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• Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Mouths, Passed Away

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• One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Country, Children, Sunshine

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Soul, Harm

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.518, e-artnow

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cleaning, Purification, Disgusting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

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• An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Support

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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