Dust Quotes - page 3

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. View quote
Italo Calvino
Houses are full of things that gather dust. View quote
Jack Kerouac
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. View quote
Robert Jordan
Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust. View quote
Joaquin Miller
Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham. View quote
O. Henry
All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. View quote
W. H. Auden
As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet. View quote
Ramakrishna
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust! View quote
Walter Raleigh
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by. View quote
Philip Pullman
The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue. View quote
Emil Cioran
When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs,he forgot the copperheads and the assassin . . .in the dust, in the cool tombs. View quote
Carl Sandburg
When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. View quote
Erica Jong
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world. View quote
Edith Sitwell
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. View quote
Paolo Bacigalupi
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. (Matthew Arnold)
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. View quote
Bill Bryson
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
I think I know the real reason.” "Which is?” "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?” He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol.” He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol. View quote
Iain Banks