Dust Quotes

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he

She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

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

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

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.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

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

What do you do to your hair?" "Dust, hair gel, and a little gun oil." "Ever thought of patenting the recipe?" "No.

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust we shall return.

I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.