Dust Storms Quotes

• Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid.

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  Sarah Zettel

  Daughter   Crazy   Dust  

  Sarah Zettel (2012). “Dust Girl: The American Fairy Trilogy”, p.9, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

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  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Dust   Storm   Rabbits  

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• I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened.

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  Fred Eaglesmith

  Song   Writing   Beer  

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

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  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Learning   College   Dust  

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• Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

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  Langston Hughes

  Dream   Stars   Clouds  

  Langston Hughes (2011). “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

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  Jessica Sorensen

  Night   Dust   Wind  

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• These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

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  Will Rogers

  Dust   Agriculture   Storm  

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