Dust Quotes

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

I will be dust, but dust in love

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

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

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.