Dust Quotes - page 2

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. (John Muir)
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. View quote
William Blake
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. View quote
Thomas More
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. View quote
William Wordsworth
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. View quote
Jack London
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. View quote
Pablo Picasso
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. View quote
Walter Scott
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. (Walter Scott)
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort to death the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires and expires, too soon, too soon before life itself. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance. View quote
Albert Einstein
Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight. View quote
Rick Riordan
... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year. View quote
Phyllis Diller
I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record. View quote
Adrian Belew
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. View quote
Carlisle Floyd
If we work upon marble, it will perish If we work upon brass, time will efface it If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust But if we work upon mens immoral minds And imbue them with high principles, With the just fear of God and love of their fellow man We engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, And which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. View quote
Daniel Webster
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies. View quote
Adin Ballou
Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews. View quote
Hafez al-Assad
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles. (Henry David Thoreau)
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day," said Mr. Irwine. "No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things. View quote
George Eliot
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. View quote
John Donne
The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
I begin my work under the effect of shock, which I can sense and which gets me on the run from reality... In any case, I need a starting point, even if it's just a speck of dust or a gleam of light. View quote
Joan Miró