Mud Quotes

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

I, too, saw God through mud

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

He who sling mud, lose ground.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.