Best 102 quotes in «mud quotes» category

We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we reached the boat, our clothes were clinging to our flesh and stained with the bloody remains of mosquitoes.

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

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. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.

Whenever you should question your self-worth, always 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.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

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

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

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

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

I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.