Quotes About Dirt

Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

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.

When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.

Walter Kugler was on the ground, his blond hair peppered with dirt.

I'm covered in shit!

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

La suciedad y la inmoralidad andan juntas. La mugre engendra enfermedad.

On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out of their cars, and bash their faces into pavement; Suck up that dirt like a good little Electrolux, Jersey Boy Bitch.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That's called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt.

Heights—an orange-vested Caltrans crew, stupidest agency in the state, taking petty-fascist satisfaction in blocking off two lanes. I sat, idling along with the Seville, rolled a foot or two, sat some more, finally got past La Cienega. Unmindful of the noise and the dirt. New focus: yearning to feel useful.

We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars; now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

much time. * * * Racing around the outside of the square in his Afghan robes, face smeared with dirt and blood, he looked little different from many of the other men

I just try to reflect the grittiness in New York. I try to protect the grit and the dirt that comes with it, which is a good thing.

Safe at the opposite corner, Clancey was himself again — coolly disdainful despite dirt-smeared face, torn shirt ... Clancey's voice is like that of a furious goose, all honks and hisses.

Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.

Ich geh mir mal ein Stück Dreck aus dem Rücken drücken." - Gerlinde

She found half of a sea biscuit and offered it to Sus. The young girl held it between two fingers and licked a corner. "It tastes like dirt." "And how would you know?" Felissa said, putting her fists on her hips. "You eat dirt often, do you? Snacking on mud pies when our backs are turned?" "It tastes how dirt smells," Sus said.

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

hair and crumbs and unidentifiable orts to be vacuumed

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?

Better to be dirty than dead.

I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!