Dirt Quotes

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. (Alfred Austin)
There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. View quote
Babe Ruth
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. View quote
Charles Lamb
Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold. View quote
Charles Lamb
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. View quote
Stephen King
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten. View quote
Eric Bogosian
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. View quote
John Heywood
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. View quote
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job. (Germaine Greer)
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath. View quote
Theodore Roethke
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. View quote
Martin H. Fischer
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. View quote
Margaret Atwood
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. View quote
Henry Miller
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder. View quote
Jane Jacobs
I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. View quote
Cassandra Clare
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt. View quote
William Styron
Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold. (Van Morrison)
What have I become, My sweetest friend? Everyone I know Goes away in the end. You could have it all, My empire of dirt. I will let you down; I will make you hurt. View quote
Trent Reznor
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich. View quote
Larry Holmes
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. View quote
Christiaan Huygens
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. View quote
Jonathan Swift