Quotes About Dust

I'd rather be ashes than dust

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.

It may all sound very petty to complain about, but I tell you that sort of thing settles down on one like a fine dust." -Warner, Lolly Willowes

Sudden in a shaft of sunlightEven while the dust movesThere rises the hidden laughterOf children in the foliageQuick now, here, now, always—Ridiculous the waste sad timeStretching before and after.

A mo?e mnie utworzy?y, niczym ob?ok py?u kosmicznego, wasze marzenia, tortury, smutki, niedole.

When the girl at the squat got her throat slit, and Jacob got marked, Nix had been in Portland a little under a year. He had just bought a SpongeBob sleeping bag from Goodwill and had started to feel something like safe. But then, a roll or two of dust every other week helped with that.

She'd had little patience with darkness, and her heart held only a measure of shadow. I touched the warm dust of those colors, her tools, and left there with light on the tips of my fingers.

Dust too is drawn on wings to light.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Life is fleeting, " Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

...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.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility.

we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.

However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. The news of our cosmic unimportance triggers impressive defense mechanisms in the human psyche.

He sank into an apathy of heat and dust and sweat, and joined the morose ten per cent of men in South Fast Asia Command whose wives had let them down.

The next day the weather was blown out, with whitecaps frosting the entire channel across to Lanai and the coconut palms whipping overhead like epileptic dust mops.

Buku seharusnya berada di tangan yang paling bisa menghargainya, dan tidak hanya diletakkan tanpa dibaca, mengumpulkan debu dalam lemari yang terlupakan.

A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air.

Bücher sollten dort sein, wo sie am meisten gewürdigt werden, und nicht ungelesen in irgendeinem Regal stehen und Staub ansetzen, findest du nicht auch?

Y te enseñaré algo que no es ni la sombra tuya que te sigue por la mañana ni tu sombra que al atardecer sale a tu encuentro; te mostraré el miedo en un puñado de polvo.

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear.