Dirt Quotes - Page 20

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

  Wyclef Jean

  The End Of The Day, Return, Ends

  Source: djbooth.net

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• 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.

  Stephen Colbert

  Real, People, Shadow

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• I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Stars, Garden, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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

  Robert Herjavec

  Grandmother, Poor, Raised

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

  James Cameron

  Makeup, Blood, Wounds

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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 theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

  Bill Viola

  Rocks, Tree, Feelings

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

  Jon Tester

  Real, Thinking, Hands

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• We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

  Bell Hooks

  College, Class, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Cancer, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.45, Penguin Group

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

  Steve Lawson

  Giving Up, Following Christ, Gains

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• There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.

  Andrew Davidson

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt yard. Never in my life should I have been a success. So that's what I love about this country [USA], is you get out there and you have the opportunity and you work hard at it, and you can be a success.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dream, Country, Hard Work

  "Comedian Jeff Foxworthy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Past, Dust, Littles

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• Come hither, all ye empty things,
  Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;
  Who float upon the tide of state,
  Come hither, and behold your fate.
  Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
  How very mean a thing's a Duke;
  From all his ill-got honours flung,
  Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Mean, Fate

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.283

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• The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.

  Anne Holm

  Hands, Smell, Water

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• And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.113, A&C Black

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• It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.

  Betty Smith

  Pain, Simple, Differences

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• Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hurt, Men, Hair

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Mary Douglas

  Systematic, Matter, Materials

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• 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."

  John Lydon

  Black And White, Army, Color

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.113, Picador

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• That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Money, Commitment, Dedication

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• I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Dirty, Home

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• In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.

  Robert Benchley

  Beautiful, Track, Tools

  Robert Benchley (1925). “Of All Things”

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• 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

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Hate, Water

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

  Julia Ward Howe

  Dust, Heaven, Railroads

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