Dirt Quotes

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

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.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

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.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.