Quotes about dirt
A collection of quotes on the topic of dirt, likeness, doing, use.
Quotes about dirt

“There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 15

“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”
Source: Trickster's Choice

Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)

Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 348

Book 1, p. 10
Cosmotheoros (1695; publ. 1698)

Monet's quote in a letter from Cote d'Azure to his second wife Alice Hoschedé, (ca. 1886): K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 55
1870 - 1890

“Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”
Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2, pg. 123.
(Buch I) (1867)

"Tugboat Complex" from the album Labor Days. Archived at " The Original Hip-Hop (Rap) Lyrics Archive http://ohhla.com/anonymous/aesoprck/rm_bside/tugboat.rck.txt," Accessed May 22, 2014.

Sakhi, 171; translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib.
Bijak

Mathnawi
Teachings of Rumi (1999)
Context: "There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun."
Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war.
But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice.
I'm astonished by the man who wants purity
And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin...
When a man beats a carpet again and again
It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.
Source: God-Shaped Hole

“I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”
Source: The Spellman Files
Source: This is Where I Leave You

“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
Time (October 6, 1986)

“What happened to your tan?"--Fang
"It was dirt." --Max”
Source: The Final Warning
Source: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. xxii

“I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
Isabelle to Alec, pg. 10
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”
Source: Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”
Source: Magic Strikes

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
I searched for keywords of that text in his books online and on an electronic copy of Muir of the Mountains, and was unable to find it. On rare occasions we find something in Muir's unpublished journals that is new and which can be verified. So I also did a search of the John Muir Papers at the University of the Pacific, and once again came up empty:
Misattributed
Source: Dream Work
Source: Blood Bound

Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Fischerisms (1944)

"Archeology"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)

http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/09/czech-poland-missile-defense-system.html
The Reference Frame http://motls.blogspot.com/

Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter V - Part 1
How I became a Hindu (1982)

Prem Nagar, Hardwar August 21,1962 (translated from Hindi). Birthday Celebrations, as published in "Hansadesh" magazine, Issue 1, Mahesh Kare, January 1963. (First published address.)
1960s

“He whose dirt it is must keep it that it may not trespass.”
Tenant v. Goldwin (1704), 1 Salk. 361.

On her appearance during live performances, The Guardian https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22821252/the_guardian/ (1992)
“Family Cucurbita” The MacGuffin, Vol. XXVII No. 1 (Fall, 2010)
2010-

Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18931
Shi'ite Hadith

"A Conversation with William Styron", Humanities (May/June 1997)

“3168. Leave no Dirt, you’ll find no Dirt.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Part I, CH 2: Chamberlain, p. 32
The Killer Angels (1974)

Letter to Francesco Vettori http://www2.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/flor-mach-lett-vettori.htm (10 December 1513), in James Atkinson (trans.), Prince Machiavelli (1976), p. 19

“I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.”
Revisiting the May 1922 dirt-throwing, fan-chasing incident, in The Babe Ruth Story; reproduced in "Babe Ruth Quotes" http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoruth.shtml at Baseball Almanac
April “REHEARSAL”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

“Old dirt road (Mushaboom)
Knee deep snow (Mushaboom)
Watching the fire as we grow”
Mushaboom
"Mushaboom"
Let It Die (2004)

Digging in the Dirt
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
Ill Fares the Land (2010), Ch. 5 : What Is to be Done?
"My Nightgown is Blue and I am too!" (20 March 2009)

All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)

Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.
In 1965 at the 11. congress of the central comitee of the SED refering to the "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" of the Beatles and against the Rockmusic from the west in general http://home.arcor.de/a3b4v5/intro.mp3
Source: Medieval castles (2005), Ch. 1 : The Great Tower : Norman and Early Plantagenet Castles

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/jun/24/policing-london in the House of Commons (24 June 1988).
1980s
Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 265.

Source: The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter IV, "Intellect", pp. 383-4.
Ch 30
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Volume II, pp. 20-21. Translation of Tarikh-i-Yamini of al-Utbi.

“On being upset by comments that suggest the music on Dirt advocates drug use, quoted in”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-19921126, Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass, Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992

1880s, The Future of the Colored Race (1886)

Corey's Coming
Song lyrics, On the Road to Kingdom Come (1976)

Denver Post Doug Hall of "Inventor" invents a lot, but not the truth http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_3645379

Audubon: A Vision (1969)

sic
From a letter to Henry Lesser, Leavenworth, Kansas, June 20, 1930, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers, pgs. 208-9, (1997), Brian King, ed. ISBN 096503240X