Dust Quotes

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

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.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen.

If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

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.

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

I'm covered with loser dust.

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

God sinks into dust before man.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.