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Quotes About Dirt

Apparently, dirt eating is really a 'real thing,' and you can actually buy it in some stores and online.
~ Cynthia Bailey
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Oklahoma holds ancient power within its red dirt
~ P.C. Cast
She spread her hands. That morning they had been soft as feathers, jeweled, polished, and perfumed. Now they were crisscrossed with blood and dirt, wearing only bruises for jewels
~ Patricia A. McKillip
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
~ Henry Adams
The room had the seedy, humiliated look of a bar seen in direct sunlight, sticky and thoroughly initialed by knife- and claw-wielding patrons. The floor was paved with old round millstones lightly covered with a scattering of straw, the chinks between them filled in with packed dirt. Neither
~ Lev Grossman
I liked this shop very much, it has a cynical and obstinate look, it insolently recalled the rights of dirt and vermin, only two paces from the most costly church in France.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
The Varzea is kind of like street basketball in America or like the semi-professional football leagues in Europe. The pitches are all dirt, and you're playing against the marmanjo - the 'hard men.' It's known for being extremely physical.
~ Gabriel Jesus
Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.
~ Scott Gottlieb
I think Eggs looks great, with his mucky face with dirt all over it and greasy hair. He's the ideal boy Boxtroll, really. It's quite difficult to capture a boy who's grown up as a Boxtroll. So, he looks good.
~ Isaac Hempstead Wright
The corpse of a NightWing guard lay beneath the dirt in a hastily dug hollow,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
In a field. With the moon. And the dark. And the dirt. With your mouth. And just one word: god god god.
~ Daphne Gottlieb
Farming was a risky proposition under even the best of circumstances. Folks who toiled in the dirt could do everything right and a drought or an early freeze could come and wipe them out.
~ David Baldacci
You're as cowardly as a g------ weasel. You know that? A weasel . That's what you are." "You don't know me," I say, spitting blood onto the dirt. I can't help it. I start to laugh. "And you obviously don't know much about weasels, either.
~ Holly Black
Everything was dusty, and the fridge hadn't been cleaned for months. Inside, the smoked salmon was swimming, the caviar had hatched, and the liqueur-filled dark chocolates had turned fright-white.
~ Lionel Shriver
I got makeup tests and hair tests for 'Versailles,' and the main thing they were obsessed with was that my hands were disgusting. I had three years of Irish dirt under my nails. I had to have manicures and everything.
~ George Blagden
Before we had washed them, they had been very, very dirty, it is true; but they were just wearable.  After we had washed them—well, the river between Reading and Henley was much cleaner, after we had washed our clothes in it, than it was before.  All the dirt contained in the river between Reading and Henley, we collected, during that wash, and worked it into our clothes.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A dirty book is rarely dusty.
~ Unknown
Where there is a dirt - we can clean! Yes true but none cleans garbage dumps!!
~ Unknown
This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.
~ David James Duncan