The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get ...
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In ...
Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.
Clyde Barrow: Now you just tell me what was wrong with that car. C.W. Moss: Dirt. Clyde Barrow: Dirt? C.W. Moss: Dirt in the fuel line... just blowed it away.
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
The house was the color of baby vomit.
Who cleans up the dirt washes away happiness.
Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.
Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.
Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch? Luke: I don't know, Boss. Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living.
A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.
A pig used to dirt turns up his nose at rice.
I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together.
I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.
