Quotes about dust
dust long path
I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. Rumi
dust feelings body
Imagine your body replaced by dust and vapor, and having a tingly feeling in your stomach without even having a stomach. Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing into nothing. I got so angry, a flash of lightning crackled inside me. “Don’t be that way,” Amos chuckled. “It’s only for a few minutes. Rick Riordan
dust names listening
My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.
dust together-again doubt
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day." Thomas Brooks
dust car turns
I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust.
dust mad tears
Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this? Scott Westerfeld
dust towns settling
Just like dust, we settle in this town. Kacey Musgraves
dust hem stains
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. Mother Teresa
dust singers matter
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand. Steve Earle
dust absence fear-of-death
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace. T. S. Eliot
dust next evolution
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. Ray Kurzweil
dust clouds perfect
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal. Tom Robbins
dust bird mercy
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy. Stephen King
dust sky rose
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust...
dust voice fleeting
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? Thomas Gray
dust two drawing
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. Thomas B. Macaulay
dust collecting hoover
Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust. Tim Vine
dust feet house
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis. Thomas de Quincey
dust waiting waste
You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust. Reba McEntire
dust talking voice
I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last time, you've got the nerve to welcome me?" I shifted uneasily, because talking that way to a god can get you blasted into dust bunnies. "Um, Nico-" "It's all right," Persephone said coldly. "We had a little family spat." "Family spat?" Nico cried. "You turned me into a dandelion!
dust circles broken
Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started to say, “Who—?” 463/508 Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. “Bad Cyclops Lady!” he bell owed. “General Tyson says GO AWAY!” He hit her again, and Ma Gasket broke into dust.
dust poison wells
Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or..." "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes." "Let's avoid the swords," I decided.
dust evil bunnies
No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.
dust indian felt
Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it. Rumer Godden
dust tinkerbell pixies
Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust. Walt Disney
dust arches meteors
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. Virginia Woolf
dust names use
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. Salman Rushdie
dust wind sky
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever. Rudolfo Anaya
dust contests contention
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. William Cowper
dust jewels sea
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Ursula K. Le Guin
dust want ifs
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway. William Zinsser
dust desire dry
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
dust blood house
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. Saint Augustine