Best 102 quotes in «mud quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

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

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

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

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a rifle - a really good rifle - and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and - most significantly - from a subject to a citizen.

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

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

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

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

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.

Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.

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.

Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.

Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.

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.

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

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

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

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

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

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.

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.

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.

The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us.

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.'

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

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.

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

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!

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

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

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

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

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

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.

When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

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