Dust Quotes - Page 38

• It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Black, Gone, Ends

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• The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.

  Brian Jacques

  Heart, Writing, Blue

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• You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

  Ali Smith

  Running, Would Be, Gone

  "Life stories". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Men, Looks, Gone

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• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  Hal Sparks

  Artist, People, Cartoon

  ChicagoPride.com interview, chicago.gopride.com. May 19, 2010.

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

  Laozi

  Earth, Unions, Brightness

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

  Regina Spektor

  Distance, Thinking, Space

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• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  Vance Havner

  Kings, Heart, Ice

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

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• He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Love Is

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

  Scott Hastie

  Summer, Hot, Caught

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• Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

  Ilana Mercer

  Zimbabwe, Bowls

  "The Genocide in Democratic South Africa". www.wnd.com. January 19, 2007.

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• I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Eye, Men, Boys

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

  Huineng

  Mirrors, Tree, Void

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• Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?

  Huineng

  Fall, Reality, Void

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

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Soul, Bud, Body

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• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  Gerald Kersh

  Lonely, Dog, Stars

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• The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Life, Heart, Recovery

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

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Fall, Islamic

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• And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Pride, Ashes

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• In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back to the dust. We will trade it in for an entirely new heavenly model!

  David Berg

  Heaven, Body, Natural

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• Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Feet, Tree, Friendly

  Henry Van Dyke (2006). “Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressio”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Feet, Poetry, House

  Thomas De Quincey (1853). “Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers”, p.12, Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

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• Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Book, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

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• In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Taken, Understanding

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3367, Delphi Classics

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

  George Herbert

  Flesh, Mortality, Our Time

  George Herbert (1856). “The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated”, p.80

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