Dirt Quotes

If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But close up a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Gardeners have the best dirt.

Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome, and soul-destroying.

Fertile ground.

What shall we do with… the Jews?… set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

Dirt cheap.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.