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Dust Quotes - Page 7

You can't really dust for vomit.

"This Is Spinal Tap". www.imdb.com. 1984.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.411, e-artnow

How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.85

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.146, HMH