Quotes About Dust

breathing in the peculiar smell of the library: a mix of dust and leather and melted vanilla ice cream. Warm, like the scent of someone's skin.

Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound? We can but praise, for we may not understand; But there's no more beautiful riddle the whole world round Than is hid in this heap of dust I hold in my hand.

Kenang, kenanglah kami yang tinggal tulang-tulang diliputi debu. Beribu kami terbaring antara Karawang-Bekasi.

No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been.

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;

It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust

Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!

I keep my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....

A universe with conscious beings either finds itself in the dust...or it doesn't. It either makes sense of itself on its own terms, as a self-contained whole...or not at all. There never can, and never will be, Gods .

Each thing in earth is nothing but an eternal symbol clothed in dust.

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

Del salón en el angulo oscuro de su dueño tal vez olvidada silenciosa y cubierta de polvo veiase el arpa ¡Cuanta nota dormia en sus cuerdas como el pájaro duerme en las ramas esperando la mano de nieve que sabe arrancarlas -¡Ay!-pensé-.¡Cuantas veces el genio asi duerme en el fondo del alma,,como Lazaro,espera que le diga:"¡Levantate y anda!" y una voz

Then out of the dust and sand came the crabs, unharmed and infuriated, scuttling forward in search of revenge!

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, zynders to zynders: even those who protest that they never go to funerals have to in the end.

You'll recall," said Sickert, brushing dust from his trousers with the back of his hand, "that a year or two ago I was chased through the back streets of King's Cross by a posse of prostitutes all crying 'Jack the Ripper!' after me.

Dear God... Please tell momma that REAL Cowboys don't take baths they just DUST OFF. -Amen-

Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.

As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses. They seemed to him a band of tramps, huddled together along the riverbanks, their old coats covered with dust and soot, stupefied by the panorama of sunset and waiting for the first chill of night bid them arise, shake themselves and begone.

Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.

MEMENTO HOMO, QUIA PULVIS ES, ET IN PULVEREM REVERTERIS. "What is that? Latin?" Emily said. "It is," I said, staring at it. "My Catholic high school's preferred method of torture. Memento means 'remember,' I think. Pulvis is 'dust.'" Cold numbed my back like a spinal tap as I suddenly realized its meaning. "'Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

We have stars, planets and galaxies in space. There's lots of nothingness out there, but it's really not. There's gas, dust and other bits of matter floating around emptier' areas of the universe, but you can't see it very easily.