Mud Quotes

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

  Leo Burnett

  Love, Success, Stars

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”

  Greg Plitt

  Higher Ground, Want, Walks

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• You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Sex, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Courage, Scum

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• We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Stars

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• We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

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• Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

  Thomas M. Disch

  Nature, Mud Puddles, World

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• He who slings mud generally loses ground.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Advice, Criticism, Loses

  "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 58), 1957.

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• Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Dirty, Naughty, Pie

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.15

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• Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Dust, Hands

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

  Laozi

  Patience, Knowledge, Water

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• Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Ideas

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• The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Rain, Men, Water

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

  Isaiah

  Sea, Wicked, Wave

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

  Robert Graves

  Poison

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mud Puddles, Losing, Moral

  Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971) "Q.E.D." (1903) bk. 1

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• There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Lotuses, Needs

  "Oprah Talks to Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Dog, Lying

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• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Christian Inspirational, Literature

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Spring, Air, Snow

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.199

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

  Mary Engelbreit

  Rain, Praying, Be Prepared

  Mary Engelbreit (1999). “Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By”, p.83, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Made, Marble

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.2.

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