Quotes About Dust

And she saw beauty even in the tiny sparkles of dust suspended in the air, high above.

I wouldn't go back to ashes or dustWords gave me life and in them I will surrenderFrom words to words..

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

If the breath of life is taken, man turn to dust.

And the fierce wind is an echo of angry childhood and of a very scared boy looking out the window—remembering my dead dog outside by the wounded house as the gray Texas dust gradually covered her up—and thinking: It isnt fair! Why cant dogs go to Heaven?

I took one Draught of Life—I'll tell you what I paid—Precisely an existence—The market price, they said.They weighed me, Dust by Dust—They balanced Film with Film,Then handed me my Being's worth—A single Dram of Heaven!

This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and LadiesAnd Lads and Girls—Was laughter and ability and Sighing,And Frocks and Curls.

You can turn me into dust but you cannot suppress my voice of freedom.

Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.

When she reached the house the sun had turned the morning air into a shimmering mirage of heat and dust devils. Hannah wished the rains had not finished so early. The land was already parched, stubbled with broken stalks of bleached grass.

On the occasion of a visit to Jane Austen's childhood home in Steventon, Hampshire: "I put my hand down on Jane's desk and bring it up covered with dust. Oh that some of her genius might rub off on me! One would have imagined the devoted female custodian going round with her duster at least every other day.

It's dust and it's made of nothing and comes from no where, to cover everything, everywhere.

The distractions then were card catalogs and dust and the smell of old paper and ink. The distractions were deep.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement?

Be most suspicious of your hearts in cases where self-interest or passions are engaged; for they will easily deal deceitfully and cheat yourselves in the smoke and dust of such distempers.

The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

I'm conflicted because I like being in deserts. I find them sort of cleansing, but there's another part of me that hates dust. And I particularly hate dust in cars, so it's a huge conflict going on there.

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.

The eons of time have crumbled to dust the proud walls of its temples, but the wisdom of Babylon endures.

The thousand dresses, laid out so reverently that afternoon, flecks of dust brushed off carefully in doorways, hems gathered up for the carriage trip: where are they now? Is a single one museum-displayed? Are some few yet saved in attics? Most are dust. As are the women who wore them so proudly in that transient moment of radiance.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. ("The Face of the Skies")

the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it --nor can they.

As soon as you go off the racing line you go through all the dust and then have to spend time cleaning up your tires.

They will love me for that which destroys me the sword in my dreams the dust of my thoughts the sickness that breeds in the folds of my mind