Dirt Quotes

“Alec looked at her and shook his head." How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes? "
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.”
― Felder Rushing

“Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.”
― Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

“When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, theonlything, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.”
― Conn Iggulden, Conqueror

“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”
― Debasish Mridha

“We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

“You dirty rat...”
― James Cagney

“The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“Learn from seeds; they don’t die when you throw dirt at them; they grow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It was spring, the barren time in March when you cannot be sure if it is really warner, but you are so desperate for change that you tell yourself the mud at the edge of the sidewalk is different than winter mud and you are sure that the smell of we soil has suddenly a bit of the scent of summer rains, of grass and drowned earthworms. And it has, because it is spring and inside the ground something is stirring.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

“Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.”
― Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

“Perhaps it’s an occupational hazard: I see dirt where others don’t.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil.”
― Isabella Tree, Wilding

“Sauber gemacht wird erst, wenn einem der Dreck Tränen in die Augen treibt!”
― Michael Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody

“We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dirt under her fingernails, the gentle breeze in her hair, and the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves like a soft hand stroking the fabric of the earth soothed her senses; it all culminated into one of the most comforting feelings in the world.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“The difference between dirt and soil is: Dirt is dead. Soil is alive.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“To climb in the canopy I must leave the ground. And such a decision will determine whether I will live a life of forest vistas, or an existence of dirt and leaves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The way to quit digging holes is to get rid of the shovels and stay away from the dirt.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there's no joy in what you do, why do it?”
― Jason Dirt

“Turn eighteen, shoot grandma, crash the truck, storm the school and return to dirt.”
― Steven Magee

“Robotic vacuums can clean better than conventional vacuums.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“We come from dirt and we return to dirt.”
― Steven Magee

“For those who set out to clean the dirt of the world, the best broom is their own clean morals, because you can't clean the dirt with dirt!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There was dirt under my fingernails for the first fourteen years of my life. It has most likely seeped into my blood.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“As a young woman in college, I had no inkling about the sufferings of old age. Proper communication would have informed me and transformed the situation, but in the dearth of it, there was chaos, even horror. The memory of it was shoved into a container at the back of my mind, and there it stayed until this past year. Could I have been more creative in finding answers and making sure the woman found peace? This kind of experience is the good dirt of a writer.”
― Laura Bartnick, BEING CREATIVE

“It takes dirt nurtured by heaven's tears for a seed to bloom into a beautiful flower.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“We employ a dirty trick to combat dirt.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov