A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
Barnabe Barnes

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
Grazia Deledda

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.
Richard Parks Bland

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles W. Chesnutt

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
Muhammad Iqbal

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
Claire Danes

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
Jane D. Hull

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Timothy Garton Ash

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.
Dionne Warwick

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.
Adrian Belew

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce