Dust Quotes - Page 29

• From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Mountain Ranges, Sea

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Life, Work, Tired

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• The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.

  Viola Meynell

  Kings, Lying, Flower

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• ...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.

  Gertrude Bell

  Life, Men, Atmosphere

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• Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Wise, Dream

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• Oh that God would humble me deeply in the dust before Him! i deserve Hell every day for not lovingmy Lord more, who has, i trust, loved me and given Himself for me.

  David Brainerd

  Love, Humble, Hell

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.41

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• The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Fire

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• How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Art, Proud

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.178

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• Look,
  Here are we
  On this starry night staring into space.
  And I must say
  I feel as small as dust
  Lying down here.
  What point could there be troubling?
  Head down wondering what will
  Become of me,
  Why concern we cannot see
  But no reason to abandon it.
  Time is short but that's all right,
  Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night.
  Take your hands from your eyes, my love,
  Everything must end some time,
  Don't burn the day away.

  Dave Matthews

  Time, Lying, Eye

  "Song: 'Pig'". 1998.

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• He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men’s feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.

  Guru Arjan

  Heart, Men, Names

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• There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.

  Marco Pierre White

  Home, Long, Matter

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• You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Ideas, Growth, Turning Your Back

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Inspirational, Fitness, Kids

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• There's not enough dust to cloud our love for freedom.

  Fernando Zamora

  Life, Clouds, Our Love

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• The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

  Ezra Pound

  Death, Lying, Heart

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Edward Thomas

  Flower, Losing, Lost

  'Tall Nettles' (1917)

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• Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

  Christopher Smart

  Fighting, Men, Clouds

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• And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

  Ezra Pound

  Sweat, Orange, House

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Boys, Genius

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• When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Bones

  William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.62

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• That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Crush, Long, Car

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2017). “The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group

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• Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Powerful, Military, War

  "New world disorder". www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

  Heather Anne Campbell

  Kings, Book, People

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• Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

  Horace Greeley

  Country, Growing Up, Men

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