Quotes About Dirt

You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say "dig" with a straight face without referring to the process of using a tool to remove dirt from the ground.)

And how would you get it?" Jayfeather mewed. "Just stroll up to a fox and say, 'Please make some dirt for me?' I don't think so.

Absorbing a healthy amount of dirt builds your immune system.

Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.'

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.

You've got dirt on your forehead," I said, "so has he," I pointed to the other priest. "Because it's Good Friday, lord. The day our Lord died." "Is that why they call it good?

It is a poor soul who confuses dirt with filth or soil with soiled.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not

Her stony coldness was more convincing of the cataclysm than the dirt. Argument was as futile now as blame in Eden. I could not bear to look at her. She had cast away her soul.

Tidy Tip: Dig deep, and be sure to cover the body in a heavy layer of slaked lime—also known as calcium hydroxide, or Ca(OH)—which accelerates decomposition and kills odors that attract animals who may want to dig it up. A layer of dirt, then another of the slaked lime before a final half-foot of dirt. The bugs will help finish the job!

I didn't say you weren't, but moving on the hope that some man will hire you seems a bit risky.' 'No more so than diggin' in the dirt for your dreams—only to find it's your grave you've been diggin'.

How many funerals had he attended, how many open graves had he seen, watched the coffins eased down, or sometimes just a frayed mat in which the corpse was bundled, the feet sticking out, the soles white and sometimes still specked with dirt if he was a farmer and could not afford slippers, least of all shoes. -Istak

in those first years—and are reminded now—that people would excuse us for our poverty, for our lack of comforts and conveniences, but that they would not excuse us for dirt.

We all of us are made out of dirt. God took him up some dirt and put it in his hands and rolled it around and then he spit in the dirt and rolled it some more and out of that dirt and God spit, he made you and me, all of us.

As Pushkin put it: He had no itch to dig for glories deep in the dirt that time has laid.

He had no itch to dig for glories Deep in the dirt that time has laid.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*

Luckily he had found a piece of cloth on the balcony outside Mr Brown's room and so he'd been able to clean off the worst of the dirt before getting down to the important job of taking it to pieces and polishing it.

but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral!

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.