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Quotes About Dirt

Like say if the mom and dad of god said he could never get dirty. There would be no world!
~ Lynda Barry
Okay, so Courtie had some dirt on the knees of her pants and a piece of grass in her hair and a little red around her mouth. She was four. What did Leigh expect? Four-year-olds get dirty. I'd be more worried if she were pristine every day. To me, dirt is a sign of fun. It's normal.
~ Ann M. Martin
Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin; the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets.
~ John Connolly
Era un vaquero, señor, y le encantaba la tierra. Le gustaba tanto que se hizo una mujer fuera de la suciedad y se casó con ella. Pero cuando él la besó, ella se desintegró. Más tarde, en el funeral, cuando el predicador dijo: "El polvo al polvo", se echó a reír a algunas personas, y el vaquero les dispararon. En su ahorcamiento, le dijo a los otros, "voy a estar esperando en el cielo --- con un arma."
~ John Dave Rivera
He's all mouth, and sassy to boot. Just looking for a sunny place to pick the dirt from his navel
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of guns and misery. I did not want to see Tyre again, or Qana, or Baghdad. I wanted to do nothing more than move dirt from one place to another.
~ Anthony Shadid
Oh, body, be held now by whom you love. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.
~ Aracelis Girmay
You don't see guys being compared with other guys, you base people on your roots in racing. You would think I'd get more compared with people who do dirt racing.
~ Hailie Deegan
We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.
~ Toni Collette
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Starting with the lyrics, 'Only scared of myself and the truth in the stars/I'm a king, I'm the dirt, God within me shine,' the first half of '6 Weeks' delves into my attempts to balance the notion that I have an existential purpose with the realization that I am nothing against the vastness of the universe.
~ Sid Sriram
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
~ Vivienne Westwood
To clean your face thoroughly, even do a scrub, and let it sit and make sure your pores are clean before you go to club. If it sits on your face overnight, dirt just builds up. Even just laying there the whole night, stuff gets on your face, so anything else there is just really not good.
~ Sasha Pieterse
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
~ Ryan Tedder
Here is a handful of shadow I have brought back to you: this decay, this hope, this mouth- ful of dirt, this poetry.
~ Margaret Atwood
The ochre-yellow linoleum floor hasn't been scrubbed for some time; splotches of dirt bloom on it like grey pressed flowers.
~ Margaret Atwood
Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.
~ Margaret Atwood
Mom, who knew the dirt, and hid the dirt, and did the dirty work, and never saw herself or us as clean enough – and who believed that there was other dirt you shouldn't tell to children, and didn't tell it, which was dangerous only later.
~ Margaret Atwood
war was not glory but dirt and misery.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. Today, class, we are having a special science lesson. Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.
~ Annie Barrows
Along its raw dirt floor, puddles of afternoon rain reflected the starlit sky, like jagged slivers of mirror.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The horizon, bloody with the sunset, dulls with smoke and churned-up dirt.
~ Scott Westerfeld
You're a bum-rag covered in clart!
~ Scott Westerfeld, Deryn Sharp
What if there is no dirt on Merjack? Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in a classroom, then dropped it to his side.) We all die. (Omari) I just love teenage angst. By the way, chip, there are worse things in life than dying. (Nero) Like what? (Omari) Living as a slave. (Alix)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon