Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.

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Dead grass is awakened by fire,
dead earth is awakened by rain.
One life will give way ...
SUSAN DENNARD The ground has really been soaked because of the rain. The trees were sliding down upright with the ...
ROSETTE LERIAS Rain is the subject of prayer, the kind gesture of saints. Dear City, explain your irreverence: in y...
CONCHITINA R. CRUZ The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was ...
HENRY JAMES There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm t...
JOHN GREEN Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, an...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
“Dissolve” says Death,
The S...
EMILY DICKINSON The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there ...
DON DELILLO Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into...
SHANNON CELEBI Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of th...
DENNIS HOPPER The rain fell like dead bullets.
SCOTT NICHOLSON Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole Of life that quickens in the sod.
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Life is but a dream for the dead.
GERARD WAY There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.
NOEL COWARD Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.
HOWARD CLARK [The employees who toured with the Dead will feel the pinch, as well.] There's crew and there's secu...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will sur...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD There was some leeway to (the ground). Had he been on cement or hard ground, he would be dead.
DEPUTY RYAN VORHIES The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I guess I think differently than most folks. I think the reason the world is a mystical, enchanting ...
E. M. CRANE The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left s...
ROBERT GALBRAITH The whole thing fell in like an accordion, ... Anybody who was out in that room would have been dead...
CHARLES SPENCER No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look in...
FREDERICK BUSCH Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first pass...
OSCAR WILDE I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Reme...
ROBERT SOUTHWELL Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
LANGSTON HUGHES Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con...
FRANKLIN GILLETTE I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
DAVID BOREANAZ Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. ...
LAINI TAYLOR Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
ZANE GREY Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The ...
OSCAR WILDE it's not worth risking a rescuer's life if the ground is unstable... we believe they're dead.
JULIO CESAR Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sash...
JAMES W. LOEWEN Eight thousand sick and dead birds have been tested, fortunately all negative.
KAMYAR DAHIM The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and th...
NANCY HOLDER If i was to choose life, life would be my choice. If i was to choose death, i would probably already...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
DR. RICHARD SELZER Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge...
CHARLES DICKENS We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instant...
SORIN CERIN Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
TOM SCHULMAN No one Respect you in your real Life But they Do when you Die
DR. ARUN S SON Death is more meaningful than just being dead.
MUNIA KHAN Water flows through the ground naturally. At every dam site around the world, seepage occurs. The wa...
JACOB DAVIS Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is ...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world h...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all me...
JAMES E. FAUST In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, me...
RAOUL VANEIGEM What a long, strange trip it's been.
GRATEFUL DEAD Yeah, Badu, all of that peace that you
be talkin' about, we got to fight first. This is the st...
DEAD PREZ How bout we start / with a salad, a fresh bed of lettuce with croutons / Later we can play a game of...
DEAD PREZ As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are di...
DEAD PREZ Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD Wipeout.
GRATEFUL DEAD Dick's Picks 35: 8/7 & 24/'71
GRATEFUL DEAD We're all very influenced by jam music. We abolished the solo (in favor of) group improv,
GRATEFUL DEAD It's been making some progress. It's just dealing with the mud, the ground is all saturated.
DOUG KEKONA A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be bro...
SUN TZU I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
DEAN KOONTZ Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
MARY HARRIS JONES Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, yo...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the...
H. RIDER HAGGARD The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...
GOLDIE HAWN I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen a...
ANNA KENDRICK Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
WILFRED OWEN Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
WILFRED OWEN Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life wi...
THOMAS F. HEALEY The dead are way more organized than the living.
CHINA MIéVILLE ...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...
RACHEL VINCENT If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, y...
DEAN SMITH If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, ...
DEAN SMITH What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
ARLO GUTHRIE The rosary is a spiritual vessel Mary uses to evangelize the life and dead of Jesus Christ to the wh...
ADRIANA MEDINA Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to m...
TIA ARTEMIS I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
POPE JOHN XXIII Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father?
TOBA BETA Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 [Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life...
WILLIAM LAW Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.
ANTHONY DOERR Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life ...
THOMAS F. HEALEY Mike came up the driveway screaming, 'My mother and father are dead, my mother and father are dead.'...
DREW OUTHOUSE How shall I know thee in the sphere which keepsThe disembodied spirits of the dead,When all of thee ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead tr...
WAYNE DYER It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and tri...
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was te...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the mo...
G. K. CHESTERTON The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances i...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Here I was sitting at the top of the North Pole, thinking my whole family was dead.
GENE POSTON It is likely that the dust from our event, by virtue of its size, had a residence time in the strato...
ANDREW KLEKOCIUK I did enter into this relationship thinking she and I could have a life together. I was dead wrong.
CHERYL PIKE BARLOW I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory f...
JOHN GREEN I've heard it's dead cool and that it's in the desert. I'm looking forward to it a lot and I know we...
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Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.

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