Mud Quotes - Page 5

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

  Dolly Parton

  High Heels, Knees, Ifs

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

  Eugene Delacroix

  Giving, Flesh, Paint

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• He who slings mud loses ground.

  Gautama Buddha

  Loses

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• Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Animal, Journey, Snow

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Water, Wife

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• In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .

  Barbara G. Walker

  Mother, Dark, Wind

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• 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.

  Critias

  Islands, Sea, Way

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

  Walter J. Turner

  Beautiful, Wisdom, People

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• We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

  Aruna Roy

  Writing, People, India

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• From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.

  Augusta Savage

  Brother, Fall, Rain

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• 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.

  Tad Williams

  War, Men, Heaven

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.100, Penguin

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• By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Illustration, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.162, Fordham Univ Press

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

  Josh Ritter

  Water, Tree, Body

  Josh Ritter (2011). “Bright's Passage: A Novel”, p.13, Dial Press

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• The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Real, Sacrifice

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1997). “Bulletin”

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• A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
  become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
  It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Love, Father, Son

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• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Democracies Have, Self

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• 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.

  Marge Piercy

  Dust, Hands, Done

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Stars

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

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

  Jeff Cooper

  Queens, Second Amendment, Rifles

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Rocks, Color

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• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Hair, White, Drawing

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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

  James Altucher

  Dirty, Pigs

  "JAMES ALTUCHER: How To Deal With Crappy People" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Pema Chodron

  Jewels, Mindfulness, May

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.248, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.'

  Amy Carmichael

  Stars, Men, Two

  Amy Carmichael (2013). “Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain”, p.22, CLC Publications

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• Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

  Austin O'Malley

  Gratitude, Rain, Rose

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