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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
You
People
Wilt
Dirt
Like
Stunt
Make
Person
Die
Either
Your
Help
Nourish
Grow
Growth
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
Me
History
You
Dust
Down
Bitter
Rise
Dirt
Write
Like
Still
Lines
Very
May
Your
Twisted
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin
Nature
Soul
Gardening
Heart
Garden
Nurture
Sun
Dirt
Head
Feed
Glory
Hands
Just
Body
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold
Life
Death
You
Grateful
Life Is Hard
Be Grateful
Face
Worms
Eat
Dirt
Throw
Die
Order
Happens
Then
Your
Hard
Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.
DMX
Respect
People
Treat
Dirt
Get
Same
Want
I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.
Joe Frazier
Man
Feelings
Nothing
Down
Think
Other
Out
Something
Guys
Dirt
He
Putting
Around
Making
Real
Prove
Go
Real Man
Shouting
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
Eartha Kitt
Trust
Dirt
Diamonds
Person
Gold
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
First
Worse
Dirt
Housework
Years
Get
Any
After
Four
Need
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Lupita Nyong'o
Art
Clay
Dirt
Wrong
Hands
Right
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb
Book
Dog
Better
Long
Own
Tea
Our
Ears
Topography
Has-Been
Having
Dirt
Know
Trace
Read
Known
Reads
Been
Which
Us
Muffins
Buttered
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow
Best
Side
Our
Kindly
Drifting
Dirt
Toward
Fellow
Passengers
Clinging
Friends
Same
Common
Doom
While
Who
Helpful
Speck
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
Confession
Stronger
Broom
Dirt
Clearer
Feel
Like
Surface
Leaves
Errors
Which
Away
Brighter
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
Man
Happy
Wealth
Dirt
Without
Loss
Shirt
Times
Assert
Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.
Louise Slaughter
Beautiful
Hurt
Girl
Our
Sexy
Dirt
Never
Learned
Anyone
Little
Sweat
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
Happiness
Love
Sadness
Down
Drama
Seeing
Faces
Dirt
Cleanliness
Walking
Street
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close
Life
Art
Time
Me
You
Experience
Amazing
Space
Somebody
Painting
Every
Think
Every Time
Mediums
Way
See
Life Experience
Magical
Dirt
Colored
Most
Make
Another
Another Way
How
Surface
Go
Truly
Where
Flat
Figured
Rub
Museum
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
Czeslaw Milosz
Clouds
White
Back
Seems
Entrance
Dirt
Feet
Because
Glorify
Heat
Just
Just Because
Bare
Bare Feet
Stare
Floor
Things
Here
When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.
David Roberts
You
Ungrateful
Back
Outdoor
Wear
Seems
Struck
Having
Dirt
Pounds
He
Saddle
Along
Tickle
Another
Makes
How
Versatile
Trail
Scratch
Just
Eight
After
Wool
Miles
Coarse
Why
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
Hilarie Burton
Gardening
Dirt
Nails
Always
Gloves
Sissies
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad
Nature
Man
Will
Finds
Magnificent
Dirt
Never
Still
Heap
His
Little
Mud
Keep
Butterfly
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.
Keeley Hawes
People
Phobia
High
Dirt
Dirty
Cleanliness
Like
Smelly
Houses
Just
Agenda
Really
Keen
Things
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
Matthew McConaughey
Love
Art
Me
Science
Win
Weed
Down
Rules
Out
Having
Dirt
No Rules
Never
Come
Know
Always
Versus
Trying
Hands
Want
Ground
Pull
I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
Robert H. Schuller
You
People
Tell
Born
Dirt
Had
Road
Name
House
Dead
Dead End
Go
End
Anywhere
Little
Nowhere
Number
I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
Stephen R. Donaldson
Old
Dirt
Lot
May
Common
Awful
Awful Lot
Starting
When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little dirt trail. I'm kidding.
Adam West
Old
Kidding
Dirt
Boulevard
Got
Trail
Just
Little
Hollywood
Even
If people view wearing bikini as a problem, then dirt is in their mind and not in mine.
Aditi Rao Hydari
People
Problem
Mind
Mine
Wearing
Dirt
Then
Bikini
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