Dirt Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

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.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

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.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.