Best 102 quotes in «mud quotes» category

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

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]

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Let all the poison that lurks 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 an eagle in me that wants to soar.

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.'

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

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!