Dust Quotes

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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!

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

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.

Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

In the best organizations, love is the real "pixie dust."

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning." -Pg.242-

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Doesn't sunlight kill them? Doesn't it turn them to dust, or make them burst into flames or something?" "Nope. Vampires tan, just like you and me. Well, just like you. I tend to bleach.

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!