Mud Quotes - Page 3

• Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

  Marvin Harris

  Dirty, Animal, Pigs

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• 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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Errors, History, Vomiting

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• Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent who watches their child fall down while learning to walk. Instead of coddling the child, you set them back on their feet and let them try again. They have to stumble before they can run. (Alexion) Do you really believe that we need to have our hearts ripped out? (Danger) A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

  Jesse Ventura

  Congratulations, Humor, Sticks

  News conference, speaking to reporters, where a few were wearing the "Official Jackal" security passes that he had issued, February 23, 2001.

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• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Frank Yerby

  New Orleans, Sea, Rivers

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• The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

  Bernard Malamud

  Time, Past, Clay

  Dubin's Lives (1979) p. 20

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• The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

  Bernard Malamud

  Past, Experience, Clay

  'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20

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• I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Running, Children

  Speech at Chautauqua, NY, 14 Aug. 1936, in Public Papers (1936) vol. 5, p. 289

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• They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Blood, Mountain

  James Russell Lowell (1896). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mistake, Eels, Agitation

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

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• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  Saint Patrick

  Wall, Lying, Compassion

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

  George MacDonald

  Water, Amusement, Inches

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.5294, e-artnow

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• You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

  Andy Irons

  Surfing, Sometimes, Figures

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• I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Friendship, Sweet, Digging

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Eye, Your Smile

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• Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

  Marquis de Sade

  Evil, Half, Littles

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• I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.

  Sarah Shahi

  Girl, Boys, Makeup

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• Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Life, Art, Doors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Karl Pilkington

  Weather, Mosquitoes, Gorillas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jonathan Raban

  Sea, Cities, Tides

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

  Richie Havens

  Crazy, Hippie, Rain

  "Richie Havens in his own words" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Teenager, Dry, Faces

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