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Quotes About Dirt

Somebody said that dirt is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
~ Philip Schaff
So what was work? Tasks we performed for compensation in the service of an employer, be it an individual or a corporate entity. And yes, it was as exciting as it sounds. We didn't want to work. In fact, that's about as good a definition of work as you could have: that which we didn't want to do, but had to if we didn't want to eat dirt.
~ Jon Stewart
Seven months after "Blessed Man," he wrote a sequel of sorts, also in stitched-together, "fugal" form. It's hard to read "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car," which he sent off to Maxwell in early May 1961, and not think that we're once again reading raw autobiography.
~ Adam Begley
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
~ Quentin Crisp
The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
~ Sam Levenson
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
~ Alfred Austin
'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.
~ Jon Pardi
brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed
~ James Cannon
What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max
~ James Patterson
Filthy water cannot be washed.
~ African Proverb
After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.
~ Agatha Christie
Dirty Freds... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.
~ Alan C. Martin
I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.
~ Keeley Hawes
The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives.
~ William Klein
In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.
~ Laurie David
Most girls got flowers. I got a dirt pit used for demon raising. Nice.
~ Rachel Hawkins
He says in dirty hands flowers will die.
~ Rae Meadows
Star, that looked so long among the stones And picked from them, half iron and half dirt, One; and bent and put it to her lips And breathed upon it till at last it burned Uncertainly, among the stars its sisters— Breathe on me still, star, sister
~ Randall Jarrell
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.
~ Julianna Baggott
If money, according to Augier, comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.
~ Karl Marx
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
It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
~ Jocelyn Murray