Quotes about Mud

I made all my generals out of mud. Votes: 4

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. Votes: 4

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it. Votes: 4

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Votes: 4

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. Votes: 4

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. Votes: 4

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. Votes: 4

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. Votes: 4

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world. Votes: 3

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. Votes: 3

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. Votes: 3

A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig. Votes: 3

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Votes: 3

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. Votes: 3

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry. Votes: 3

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. Votes: 3

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present. Votes: 3

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. Votes: 3

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. Votes: 3

Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime! Votes: 3

The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet. Votes: 3

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy Votes: 3

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens. Votes: 3

Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky? Votes: 3

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.” Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance. Votes: 3

We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious. Votes: 3

What's in the cave, Russell?' Madigan asked with heavy sarcasm. I shrugged. 'Rocks. Lots of 'em.' 'Don't patronize me.' His voice lowered to a hiss. 'What else is in the cave?' I looked him straight in the eye and spoke one word. 'Mud. Votes: 3

You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time. Votes: 3

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. Votes: 2

He who slings mud generally loses ground. Votes: 2

Life is made up of marble and mud. Votes: 2

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. Votes: 2

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. Votes: 2

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. Votes: 2

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud. Votes: 2

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. Votes: 2

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. Votes: 2

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly. Votes: 2

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. Votes: 2

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. Votes: 2

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Votes: 2

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now. Votes: 2

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains. Votes: 2

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. Votes: 2

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done? Votes: 2

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you. Votes: 2

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Votes: 2

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china. Votes: 2

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. Votes: 2

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. Votes: 2

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Votes: 2

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table. Votes: 2

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis. Votes: 2

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Votes: 2

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves. Votes: 2

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy. Votes: 2

What memories for mud to have. Votes: 0

He who slings mud loses ground. Votes: 0

He who sling mud, lose ground. Votes: 0

I, too, saw God through mud Votes: 0

I washed mud off of mud. Votes: 0

Even mud gives the illusion of depth. Votes: 0

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud. Votes: 0

There's no smoke without mud being flung around. Votes: 0

The work of the world is common as mud. Votes: 0

Those who want rain, must also accept the mud. Votes: 0

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them! Votes: 0

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. Votes: 0

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles? Votes: 0

A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop. Votes: 0

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful Votes: 0

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. Votes: 0

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. Votes: 0

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud Votes: 0

Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket. Votes: 0

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out. Votes: 0

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out. Votes: 0

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister. Votes: 0

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud. Votes: 0

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud. Votes: 0

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. Votes: 0

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning. Votes: 0

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are. Votes: 0

Women are a lot like ducks-they don't like mud on their butts. Votes: 0

I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES! Votes: 0

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. Votes: 0

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. Votes: 0

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud. Votes: 0

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it? Votes: 0

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear. Votes: 0

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands. Votes: 0

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels. Votes: 0

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. Votes: 0

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. Votes: 0

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt. Votes: 0

Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud! Votes: 0

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of. Votes: 0

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud. Votes: 0

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road. Votes: 0

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud. Votes: 0

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty. Votes: 0

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere. Votes: 0

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. Votes: 0

The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows. Votes: 0

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars. Votes: 0

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment Votes: 0

I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights. Votes: 0

We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them. Votes: 0

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly. Votes: 0

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. Votes: 0

Never blame others for tracking in mud, until you have checked your own feet. Votes: 0

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'. Votes: 0

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war. Votes: 0

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that. Votes: 0

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. Votes: 0

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things. Votes: 0

I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud Votes: 0

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud. Votes: 0

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. Votes: 0

My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud. Votes: 0

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars. Votes: 0

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. Votes: 0

she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud. Votes: 0

Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season Votes: 0

She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off Votes: 0

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy. Votes: 0

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer, Votes: 0

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy. Votes: 0

Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground" Votes: 0

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up. Votes: 0

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process. Votes: 0

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell. Votes: 0

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle. Votes: 0

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud. Votes: 0

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action? Votes: 0

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut. Votes: 0

In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee Votes: 0

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut. Votes: 0

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick. Votes: 0

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless. Votes: 0

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. Votes: 0

But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. Votes: 0

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. Votes: 0

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud. Votes: 0

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians. Votes: 0

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars! Votes: 0

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. Votes: 0

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed. Votes: 0

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there. Votes: 0

Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you! Votes: 0

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face. Votes: 0

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. Votes: 0

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life Votes: 0

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. Votes: 0

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.... Votes: 0

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. Votes: 0

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole. Votes: 0

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! Votes: 0

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building. Votes: 0

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought. Votes: 0

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock] Votes: 0

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. Votes: 0

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss. Votes: 0

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself. Votes: 0

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. Votes: 0

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots? Votes: 0

If you have live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while! Votes: 0

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war. Votes: 0

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It's the way I am. I love it. Votes: 0

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole. Votes: 0

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry. Votes: 0

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. Votes: 0

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well. Votes: 0

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it. Votes: 0

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud. Votes: 0

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! Votes: 0

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. Votes: 0

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat. Votes: 0

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field. Votes: 0

Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. Votes: 0

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud. Votes: 0

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus. Votes: 0

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. Votes: 0

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud Votes: 0

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128 Votes: 0

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off. Votes: 0

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country? Votes: 0

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. Votes: 0

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves. Votes: 0

I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell. Votes: 0

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. Votes: 0

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night. Votes: 0

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud flaps. Votes: 0

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun. Votes: 0

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. Votes: 0

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. Votes: 0

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud. Votes: 0

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. Votes: 0

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.... Votes: 0

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming. Votes: 0

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. Votes: 0

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff... Votes: 0

Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.) Votes: 0

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? Votes: 0

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. Votes: 0

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud. Votes: 0

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum. Votes: 0

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. Votes: 0

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. Votes: 0

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. Votes: 0

More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point. Votes: 0

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. Votes: 0

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus. Votes: 0

It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them! Votes: 0

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. Votes: 0

We made love like a frugal rug is covered with mud. I always take off my shoes before I get in the shower. Well, almost always. Votes: 0

He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn. Votes: 0

Always do good for others because when people try to drag your name through the mud, God will always bring a storm to wash it away. Votes: 0

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults. Votes: 0

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born! Votes: 0

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud? Votes: 0

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor. Votes: 0

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact. Votes: 0

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern. Votes: 0

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. Votes: 0

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Votes: 0

Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out. Votes: 0

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River. Votes: 0

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it. Votes: 0

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on. Votes: 0

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks. Votes: 0

My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud! Votes: 0

They strip-searched me! he burst outMe! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud! Votes: 0

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden. Votes: 0

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC. Votes: 0

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out. Votes: 0

They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud! Votes: 0

Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall. Votes: 0

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road. Votes: 0

I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks? Votes: 0

Logan, don't be an ass.I have been sleeping in mud. I'm covered in dirt and blood and these were my favorite pants before I landed in raccoon shit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud. Votes: 0

What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you? Votes: 0

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud. Votes: 0

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. Votes: 0

Something changed between the two men, namely [Donald ] Trump started slinging mud on Twitter about [Ted] Cruz`s wife, Heidi, including a mean comparing her looks unfavourably to his own. Votes: 0

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. Votes: 0

It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits. Votes: 0

Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and the flower,the mud and the rootsknow your name. Votes: 0

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered. Votes: 0

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals. Votes: 0

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud." Votes: 0

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. Votes: 0

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. Votes: 0

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target. Votes: 0

Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the puddles of mud and traffic jams? I so hate rain. Votes: 0

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems. Votes: 0

The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Votes: 0

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland? Votes: 0

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot. Votes: 0

A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. Votes: 0

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me... Votes: 0

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will. Votes: 0

Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch Votes: 0

I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit. Votes: 0

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now. Votes: 0

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing. Votes: 0

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met. Votes: 0

One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays. Votes: 0

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign. Votes: 0

You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely. Votes: 0

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. Votes: 0

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned. Votes: 0

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush? Votes: 0

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us... Votes: 0

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me. Votes: 0

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. Votes: 0

American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies. Votes: 0

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. Votes: 0

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child. Votes: 0

A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. Something like that. Votes: 0

Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness. Votes: 0

Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping. Votes: 0