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I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold — Neil Gaiman

it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just — Ellen Cooney

You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot. — Ilona Andrews

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

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from. — Charles Olson

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch. — Max Lucado

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse. — Quentin Crisp

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. — Willis Gaylord Clark

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food. — Jon Tester

Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one. — Paula H. Deen

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. — Samuel Johnson

Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. — Theodore Roethke

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt ... you're a better witness for what's beautiful. — Matt De La Pena

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well. — Walter Winchell

We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box. — Johnny Rich

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner

I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt. — Joss Whedon

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart. — RJ Mitte

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. — D.H. Lawrence

What is it you want?"
My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said. — Kim Harrison

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. — Henry Adams

It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain,but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain.-RVM — R.v.m.

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

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine! — Jeff Garlin

The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter. — Jane Austen

I can't believe you gave me a bag of dirt and then broke up with me! — Lauren R. Weinstein

Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt. — Melissa Jennings

Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean. — Lydia Davis

If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold! — Charles Lamb

Onto the unpaved dirt road that runs toward the — Brad Meltzer

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair. — Gary Soto

It is just as honorable ... to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well. — William Warren Prescott

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill. — John Of The Cross

Sydney tugged off her shoes by the door and went to scrub the grave dirt and the lingering feel of the dead from beneath her fingernails. — V.E Schwab

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

Hester, her head shaking and her ears flapping. Dirt chuffed, — Jodi Picoult

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

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture. — Laura Argiri

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else — Billie Joe Armstrong

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window. — Jim Rohn

Sometimes you have to dig through the dirt to find the gems — Jim Good

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty. — Amanda Hocking

I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt. — Ilona Andrews

The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together. — M.F. Moonzajer

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt. — Lou Reed

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. — John Steinbeck

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American. — Omar N. Bradley

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt — John Muir

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. — Oscar Wilde

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

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! — Shia Labeouf

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head. — Luke Bryan

A Lady never sits on the floor.' A lady probably wasn't supposed to crawl on her belly through the dirt either. — Kristi Ann Hunter

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention. — Herman Wouk

It doesn't seem right to throw dirt at you when you're dead ... — Sharon Sant

Walter Kugler was on the ground, his blond hair peppered with dirt. — Markus Zusak

After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride. — Virgil Green

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down. — Elvis Costello

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead. — Cassandra Clare

Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt. — Lidia Yuknavitch

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt. — A. Mani

Even with dirt on her face and dress, she took his breath away. — Melanie Dickerson

Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road. — Tamara L. Chilver

This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden. — David James Duncan

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more. — K. Webster

Oklahoma holds ancient power within its red dirt, — P.C. Cast

In 'Deadwood,' it was just extremely unaesthetic. They actually put underarm merkins on and covered me with dirt! — Robin Weigert

Six feet of dirt make all men equal. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Picpus Cemetery, where Lafayette is buried under dirt from Bunker Hill. — Sarah Vowell

Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt. — Tamora Pierce

I was doing a cheap sneaky job for people I didn't like, but that's what you hire out for, chum. They pay the bills, you dig the dirt. — Raymond Chandler

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Levi: I thought I heard dirt moving around in the shape of an idiot. So it was you? — Hajime Isayama

You dirty rat... — James Cagney

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window. — Ryan Tedder

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. — Texas Bix Bender

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. — Confucius

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in. — Stephen Colbert

All I know is that when I whisper to dirt, my conversations are less than meaningful. — Maggie Stiefvater

There's nothing like a Harley-Davidson for getting around mud holes, rocks, and wagon ruts on dirt roads - or for making an impression on girls. — Olive Ann Burns

Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later. — Colishia S. Benjamin

I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses. — Susie Clevenger

How dare you treat your soil like dirt! — Joel Salatin

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty. — Virginia Woolf

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober

Lothaire, I've met dirt younger than we
are." -Nix — Kresley Cole

He treats me like the dirt under my feet. — Samuel Goldwyn

Felicity looks like a girl whose lollipop has just landed in the dirt. — Anonymous

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing. — D.H. Lawrence

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you. — LeCrae

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore. — Don Henley

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us. — Shannon L. Alder

I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty. — Rebecca Solnit

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. — C.S. Lewis

One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs. — L.M. Montgomery

The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt. — William Ritter

death is the only water to wash away this dirt — Euripides