Dirt Quotes

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

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

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

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

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

A rain will fall, but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food nah nuff.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

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

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

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

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

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

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

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

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?