Quotes of Dirt - somelinesforyou

“ Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ You're on earth. There's no cure for that. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ Was it for this the clay grew tall? ”

- Wilfred Owen

“ Oh! to be wafted awayFrom this black Aceldama of sorrow,Where the dust of an earthy to-day,Makes the earth of a dusty to-morrow. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Heaven knows we need never be afraid of our tears, for they are the rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A pornography of the will. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Remember this practical piece of advice: never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing — all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art — at the door. ”

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

“ I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ”

- Unknown

“ Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ”

- Unknown

“ In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. ”

- Robert Brault

“ God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ”

- Unknown

“ There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are. ”

- Harold Ross

“ It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ”

- John LeCarre

“ The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ”

- Gloria Leonard

“ It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ”

- James Douglas

“ Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection. ”

- Bible

“ The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. ”

- Jethro Tull

“ If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ I'm the audience's representative on earth. ”

- Michael Caine

“ One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth. ”

- Gabrielle Roy

“ The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. ”

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: / While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. ”

- Bible

“ Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. ”

- Dennis Potter
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