“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”

“3168. Leave no Dirt, you’ll find no Dirt.”

“Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”

“Lothaire, I’ve met dirt younger than we
are.” -Nix”

“They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.”

“121. Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.”

“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.”

“You teachers are all alike, dishing out crap and expecting us to swallow it and then give it back to you, nice and neat, with a place in it for the mark to go in. But you're even phonier than the others because you put on this act — being a dame you know how — and you stand there pretending that you give a damn. Who you kidding?
We're dirt to you, just like you're dirt to the fatheads and whistle-blowers who run this jail, and they're dirt to the swindlers and horn-tooters who run the school system.”

“Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”

“Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land-there's always more land. it's the idea that we all have value, you and me, we're worth something more than the dirt. I never saw dirt I'd die for, but I'm not asking you to come join us and fight for dirt. What we're all fighting for, in the end, is each other.”