Dirt famous quotes

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Littles #Dirt #Impossible

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.
-- Alan Shepard

#Golf #Balls #Dirt

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
-- Albert Camus

#Death #Mouths #Dirt

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Dirty #Water #Dirt

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that ***** in the stands.
-- Babe Ruth

#Mean #Umpires #Dirt

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Might #Today #Dirt

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Religion #Dirt

If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
-- Charles Lamb

#Hands #Dirt #Trump

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
-- Charles Olson

#Roots #Dirt #Clear

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Men #Feet #Dirt

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.
-- Cheryl Mendelson

#Orderliness #Dirt #Disease

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
-- Chuck Close

#Dirt #Painting #Cry

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
-- Curtis Jackson

#Kings #Dirt #Found

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sex #Dirt #Insult

If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Religious #Irreverence #Dirt

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.
-- David Blaine

#Water #Dirt #Burying

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.
-- Diane Ladd

#Littles #Dirt #Have A Little Faith

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.
-- DMX

#People #Want #Dirt

If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced.
-- Donald Sadoway

#Want #Dirt

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.
-- Duke Ellington

#Sweet #Littles #Dirt

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Gold #Dirt #Diamond

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
-- Edie Falco

#Women #Together #Dirt

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
-- Elvis Costello

#Revenge #Dirt #Retribution

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
-- Emile Zola

#Dirt #Causes #Crime

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
-- Eric Bogosian

#Hitting #Dirt #Forgotten

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
-- Gary Soto

#Nature #Hair #Dirt

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.
-- Grace Jones

#Hate #Want #Dirt

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.
-- Greg Jackson

#Mma #One Day #Dirt

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery
-- Greg Maddux

#Dirt #Grass

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.
-- Harold Klemp

#Yesterday #Able #Dirt

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
-- Henry Adams

#Travel #Tourists #Dirt

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Dirty #Son #Dirt

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Matter #Dirt #Housework

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.
-- Herschel Walker

#Matter #Dirt #Sides

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I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
-- James Cameron

#Makeup #Blood #Dirt

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet
-- Janet Chapman

#Gun #Dirt #Driving

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?
-- Jay-Z

#Hip Hop #Dirt #Shoulders

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?
-- Jean Dubuffet

#Beauty #Men #Dirt

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.
-- Jeff Kinney

#Kids #One Day #Dirt

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Mother #Children #Dirt

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.
-- Jimmie Johnson

#Two #Dirt #Wheels

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
-- Jocelyn Murray

#Heart #Men #Dirt

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.
-- Joe Dugan

#Yankees #Ruth #Dirt

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
-- Joel Salatin

#Dirt #Soil #Treats

Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"
-- John Hagee

#Attitude #Cities #Dirt

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
-- John Muir

#Dirt #Path

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.
-- Jorge Posada

#Want #Proud #Dirt

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
-- Justin Cronin

#Hero #Sunshine #Dirt

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
-- Kabir

#Dirt #Fool #Diamond

It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Two #Dirt #Forests

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
-- L.A. Meyer

#Clothes #Dirt #Streaks

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
-- Larry Holmes

#Agriculture #Dirt #Rich

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.
-- LeCrae

#Names #Dirt #Return

We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.
-- Letitia Dean

#Broken Heart #Trying #Dirt

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower
-- Lil Wayne

#Rap #Flower #Dirt

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
-- Lin Yutang

#Men #Judging #Dirt

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.
-- Lisa Lutz

#People #Dirt #Made

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Rags #Dresses #Dirt

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
-- Luke Bryan

#Diaries #Dirt Roads #Dirt

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
-- Lyman Abbott

#Flower #Hoe #Dirt

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.
-- Mamie McCullough

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Dirt

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Dirt #Literacy #Shovels

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.
-- Mark Kurlansky

#People #Dirt #Eating

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.
-- Mary Douglas

#Systematic #Matter #Dirt

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.
-- Matt Groening

#Fancy #Stuff #Dirt

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
-- Mel Blanc

#Hurt #Lying #Dirt

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
-- Nathan Myhrvold

#Dinosaurs #Dirt #Looks

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
-- Oliver Evans

#People #Dirt

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
-- Paul Anka

#Moving On #Dirt #Moved On

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.
-- Paul Mooney

#Dirt #Brooms

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
-- Philip Schaff

#Dirt

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
-- Plato

#People #Growth #Dirt

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.
-- Raven-Symone

#Dirt #Treats

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
-- Raymond Carver

#Long #Dirt #Like You

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
-- Richard Brautigan

#Rain #Dirt #Sun

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.
-- RJ Mitte

#Dirt #Four Wheelers #Bike

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.
-- Robert Gober

#Dirt #Painting #Problem

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
-- Robert Herjavec

#Grandmother #Dirt #Poor

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.
-- Ruth Wilson

#Ideas #Dirt

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
-- Stefan Molyneux

#America #Dirt #Tradition

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
-- Stephen R. Donaldson

#Awful #Dirt #May

The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025.
-- Sumner Redstone

#Technology #Information #Dirt

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#People #Dams #Dirt

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Money #Dirt

...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
-- Thomas Huxley

#Thinking #Monkeys #Dirt

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
-- Victor Hugo

#Dirt #Misplaced #Materials

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
-- Wallace Stevens

#Moon #Dirt #World

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
-- Walt Whitman

#Looks #Want #Dirt

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.
-- Walter Winchell

#Tombstone #Lying #Dirt

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?
-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Magic #Littles #Dirt

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
-- Wendell Berry

#Dream #Dirt #Pavement

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
-- William Styron

#Thinking #Dirt #Would Be

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.
-- Willis Gaylord Clark

#Dirt #Poverty #Reason

You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Islamic #Today #Dirt

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.
-- Zig Ziglar

#People #Famous Motivational #Dirt

In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamonds fly. Add to this, the lubrication which music can provide, and you've got a workable literary form. Even when we reach the stars, we'll still be gazing down into the gutter.
-- Suhayl Saadi

#Stars #Ideas #Dirt

You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.
-- Terry Bozzio

#Smell #Noses #Dirt

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.
-- Brigid Berlin

#Dirt #Sunlight #Terrible

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
-- Andrew Davies

#Hands #Dirt #Lows