Dust Quotes

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

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

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.

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

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

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

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

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

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

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

Faith is a day-to-day lifestyle and experience of Jesus Christ. That's what we are experiencing at Shalom, when we plant in faith - even in the dust - and trust in him for the miracles of his love.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off.

Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a delicacy. He was as cool as he could be, and ate dirty socks.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.