Mud Quotes - Page 15

• Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

  George Jean Nathan

  Sex, Heaven, Gutters

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Men, Hair

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.47, NYLA

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• 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!

  Julia Golding

  Grandfather, Naked, Enough

  Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.257, Marshall Cavendish

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• I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

  Malcolm X

  Appreciation, Freedom, Believe

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• War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Crush, Peace, War

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• God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

  M. Scott Peck

  Beautiful, Light, Shining

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• Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

  Tom DeLay

  Children, Teaching, School

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• March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Hair, Shoes

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• I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. 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

  Moving, Fire, Dust

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

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• Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough
  than lose interest.

  James Poniewozik

  Fighting, Citizens, Interest

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Elephants, Sloth, Way

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• This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

  Mr. Lee

  Country, Years, Cities

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• OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

  Michael Scott

  Men, Thinking, Suggestions

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.41, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Dark, What If

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• The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Moon, Men

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Hippie, Care, Want

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• Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

  Kristin Cashore

  Handsome, Faces, Streaks

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.88, Penguin

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Wind

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• What's in the cave, Russell?' Madigan asked with heavy sarcasm. I shrugged. 'Rocks. Lots of 'em.' 'Don't patronize me.' His voice lowered to a hiss. 'What else is in the cave?' I looked him straight in the eye and spoke one word. 'Mud.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Sarcasm, Rocks

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• He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.37, FastPencil Inc

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• Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Dying, Hunger And Thirst

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Men, Two, Enemy

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• Women are a lot like ducks-they don’t like mud on their butts.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Dream, Garden, Dust

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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