Mud Quotes - Page 7

• Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

  Edna Ferber

  Marriage, Hurt, Stars

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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• Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
  Each secret fishy hope or fear.
  Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
  But is there anything Beyond?
  This life cannot be All, they swear,
  For how unpleasant, if it were!
  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.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Dark, Water

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Winter, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Jay Griffiths

  Animal, Blood, Skins

  Jay Griffiths (2015). “Savage Grace: A Journey in Wildness”, p.53, Counterpoint

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• The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Love, Running, Business

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Christopher Fry

  God, Kissing, Skirts

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited

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• 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.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Water, Doubt

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• 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.

  Melissa Bank

  Fun, Creative, Mind

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• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Rain, Boys, Blood

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

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Mother, Dream, Son

  Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

  Steven Morrissey

  Endurance, Twenties, Tests

  "Q" Magazine Interview, 1995.

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• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Please Me, Play, Consistency

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The biggest challenge is probably some of the physicality. Some stuff you would never want to experience, in real life, but it's still such an adventure that it's worth all the scrapes and bruises and mud between the toes.

  Charles Halford

  Real, Adventure, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  KT Tunstall

  Fun, People, Lovely

  Glastonbury Festival site interview, June 22, 2007.

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• Two men looked out from prison bars,
  One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

  Dale Carnegie

  Stars, Men, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.135, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Fall, Islamic

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

  Ramakrishna

  Advice, Skins, Fishes

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

  Boris Yeltsin

  Sake, Politician, Scruples

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Void, Wilderness

  Song: Shelter from the Storm

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

  John Mellencamp

  Art, Media, Hollywood

  Song: Hand To Hold On To

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

  Randy Newman

  Men, Politics, Holes

  Song: Song for the Dead

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• In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

  Stuart Dybek

  Block, Writing, Clay

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• Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Eye, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.241, Penguin

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