Dust Quotes
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.
The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.
I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.
If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.
