Dust Quotes
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Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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Before my people bite the dust, the whole world should bite the dust, and then my people. But only then!
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Reading between the lines, I got the impression of dull domesticity that had settled upon them like fine dust.
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Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
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Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
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And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
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I'm sad about it. I really thought Nicollette was a shoo-in. In terms of Eva, my prediction is she's leaving us all in the dust.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
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All actions without love are just like dust in the air.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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When someone beats a rug with a stick, he is not beating the rug – his aim is to get rid of the dust. Your inward is full of dust from the veil of ‘I’-ness, and that dust will not leave all at once. With every cruelty and every blow, it departs little by little from the heart’s face, sometimes in sleep and sometimes in wakefulness.
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Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
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I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.
