Quotes about Dust
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
- Og Mandino
In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.
- Napoleon Hill
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer — its dust and lowering skies.
- Toni Morrison
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- Anonymous
For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the ultimate sense it was neither good nor bad (consider the dust), it was just what was, that is, what we made to appear.
- Jack Kerouac
The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then; it would mix up all of my friends and all I had left of my family in a big dust cloud over the American Night.
- Jack Kerouac
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
- St. Augustine
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. And if we are a speck in the immensity of space, we also occupy an instant in the expanse of ages.
- Carl Sagan
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. And
- Carl Sagan
From the surface of the Earth the Sun would have seemed to be flickering, as in a time-lapse movie. So there was a time when sunlight first broke through the dust pall, when the Sun, Moon and stars could first be noticed had there been anyone there to see them. There was a first sunrise and a first nightfall.
- Carl Sagan