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Quotes About Dust

he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation between the living and the dead, a child born with a mud wasp's nest for a heart and its eyes already pocketed with dust, ready to be clapped into a box and dropped down a hole.
~ Benjamin Percy
Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.
~ Gore Vidal
But then what are memories but shadows of objects gone to dust? Or
~ Gore Vidal
Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet.
~ Graham Greene
She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
~ Gregory Maguire
India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.
~ Greig Fraser
Obješen na nebu, Mjesec netaknute ?isto?e nije se brinuo za ovaj svijet prašine.
~ Shan Sa
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.
~ Shannon Hale
A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret's a secret still.
~ Sharon Shinn
So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.
~ Emily Saliers
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time...a maniac scattering dust.
~ Alfred Tennyson
Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.
~ Mary Doria Russell
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.
~ Mary Lou Retton
Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
~ Mary Oliver
Love, love, love, says Percy. And run as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
~ Mary Oliver
white horse galloped out of the dust. The crowd murmured with excitement and wonder. The white horse was the most beautiful animal Jack had ever seen. He was pulling an empty chariot. And he was galloping straight toward Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
~ Matthew Arnold
We look upon our hands. We see the dust of centuries, the dust which hid great secrets and perhaps great evils. And yet it stirs no fear within our heart, but only silent reverence and pity.
~ Ayn Rand
Who spilled these stars across the sky like sparkling dust like clouds of light? They pour their milky shine into the deep black bowl above their heads white glittering too many to count.
~ Barbara Juster Esbensen
She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Timelessness again, the house like a secret temple as dust built up on things that were never meant to have dust on them - Clee's toothbrush and hairdryer and left-out-of-the-box CDs and deodorant on the bathroom window ledge. Ordinary things carefully kept in place because the last person to touch them would never put a cup down on the edge of the table again, or ever leave a book half-read.
~ Steven Hall
I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.
~ Samuel Beckett
We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.
~ Bruce Springsteen