Dirt

Dirt

Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin or possessions when they are said to become dirty. Common types of dirt include:

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Famous quotes containing the word dirt:

    “My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan’s life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.”
    —John Monks, Jr., U.S. screenwriter, Sy Bartlett, and Henry Hathaway. Robert Sharkey (James Cagney)

    “Nothing would give up life;
    Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)