Dirt Quotes

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!

When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.