Dirt Quotes

“Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.”
― J.R. Rim

“i even tried to bury myself alive
but the dirt recoiled
you have already rotted it said
there is nothing left for me to do”
― Rupi Kaur, The sun and her flowers

“Every flower must grow through dirt”
― Laurie Jean Sennott

“Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.”
― Nalini Singh, Silver Silence

“I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My maid never sweeps under the bed
so I asked her to do so today.
Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.”
― Will Advise

“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit.”
― Munia Khan

“Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Self-knowledge, which comes from within, gradually change our beliefs and drops those beliefs which are false and stupid. After being cleared off all the dirt acquired by us in the form of second-hand knowledge in our early age, we can directly see the reality, through our own eyes, through our own heart and mind, as our mind gets unconditioned. It is this mind that is rightly compared to God, as such a consciousness is pure, having been cured of all ignorance and darkness and we come close to our true self—Atman or soul.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“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

“The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.”
― Dan Wells, Fragments

“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“Entitlement is the shovel that digs a grave of greed. And there are those of us who stand at the bottom of such a grave having thrown out the last shovel full of dirt, never realizing that the grave that we’ve dug is our own until the same shovel suddenly starts backfilling the hole.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If things look grim today,
remember clay is just dirt.”
― Chris Ernest Nelson

“So next time you're bitten by a cobra, don't worry! Just book a flight to Lemnos and eat a bunch of dirt. You'll be fine.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow and gas onto the ten meter diameter mirrors high above the floor indoors. It would cause some of the accumulated dirt to magically fall off, leaving it less dirty.”
― Steven Magee

“A clean hand cannot deliver a dirty slap; only a rotten hand can leave a trail of dirt after dishing a dazing slap”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Not only are we dust in the wind, we’re dirt on the floor. We break down and join something else: whether we’re cremated or inhumed, eventually we all join the same thing. Something bigger than us. This is where we go, and where we came from.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“One shovelful of dirt at a time.”
― Rachel Beanland, Florence Adler Swims Forever

“Don’t worry to do dirty jobs. Dirt your body. Don’t dirt your soul.”
― Sijin Bt

“So, um… why… did you tried so hard to save me anyway, even after… I made life harder for the both of us?”

Điền Mục’s reply took on a rare serious tone:

“Huh? Oh, because there is a superhero in all of us. We just need the guts to… eh, actually, speaking of ‘guts’…”

He suddenly started rummaging through his backpack, took out an enema pill, pushed it into Vũ Thanh’s palm, and grinned from ear to ear with excitement:

“Hey, so how did the food of the dead taste to you these past few days anyway? Was there any trace of earthworms or dirt in them? Did they taste like they were rotting or decaying in any way? I’ve always wondered but never got a taste myself!”
― Nghịch Tử, Eyes

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