Mud Quotations

Life is made up of marble and mud.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

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

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

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

I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came home with mud in my hair every day. I've always been more comfortable with guys; I don't know why.

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.

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

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

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

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.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

When you tell people about the mud pit, you separate yourself from anybody else who does any kind of athletic activity.

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

We have no idea what we'll find, really. This area has never been examined. This portion of Mud Creek has never been studied.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.

The people I've talked to say the situation in the coal camps is getting worse. Blasts are shaking their houses, and dust and mud covers the roads and everything. There is nothing preventative about the new laws they passed. It was just an after-the-fact thing. It does nothing to protect the people.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

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

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

The price of oil is to the free market system like mud wrestling is to the performance arts,

Mud is not one of the 4 food groups

Mud has been my middle name, ... Of course, people in Hollywood would say that about my career.

One thing was on my mind the whole time: the mud pit. Plus, it was hot, and I was ready for a little cool down.

No one will help us. The tanks remain in our front yard, and create dust and mess. When it rains, the mud is so bad, our children can't even go to school.

Obviously, there's going to be some mud slung in both directions.

I would rather see some good old-fashioned mud than another 24 inches of asphalt.

I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.

I have mud all along the front of my house. There are inches of dirt inside my window sills, and they're always shut. We can't even open our garage, the dirt is so deep. I rent my house and my carpets are ruined. I'm not going to get my deposit back.

I had two guys out Tuesday and we caught four trout and a couple of reds. It's just not happening right now. Some of the top trout areas are too shallow to get in with a boat. I've been hitting the birds on the upper end of the lake. There are lots of birds, but they aren't marking too many trout. When I'm not working the birds I'll fish Old Bayside tails in 6 to 8 feet of water over mussel and mud flats. Traps in chrome and a blue back have been best under the birds.

I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap.

I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.

If we would have raced with the infield like that, cars that hit the mud would have flipped over.

He tried to grab them and I said, 'No, you can't. They're all full of mud and you can't take them because they're ruined, ... I told him, 'You can always get another. Christmas is coming up.'

He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,

We're progressing right along (on the memorial). The foundation has been poured, but the wet weather has held us up from progressing further. Right now, we have a mud hole.

Goldman Sachs' name got dragged through the mud in this. Goldman Sachs was written about in almost every major news publication in a negative light because of their involvement with Robert Maxwell.

There are still a few gas bubbles, but they're like you'd get from a can of soda as opposed to mud blowing up from the sides of the banks.

I think the first half was a lot more manageable, even though it was raining harder and the wind was blowing harder. But as the field was torn up, with the ball resting in the mud every time you could get the snap, there was pretty much mud kicked on the ball so it made a big difference in the second half.

Our best-sellers are probably the Mississippi Mud brownies and, of course, everybody loves chocolate chip cookies.

Rocks and gravel will come down sometimes. But this is the first time there's ever been a mud event.

State and some federal officials have been consistently denying there are any significant risks from the toxic mud that has spread across the city. The data they themselves have collected show that, to the contrary, there are significant risks from arsenic and toxic chemicals that have blanketed much of New Orleans.

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

It definitely changes the way the ball feels. If you get a new baseball, it's slick, it's hard to hold on to. If you put some mud on it, it gives you a better grip.

The Afghan people in the city live in something like mud houses, ... If they live out in the country, they live in old-time tents with no electricity. In town, they sleep on top of their houses because it's so hot at night.

We have one of the best playing fields in the country. So far this fall, the field was used 88 times. It went from 13 to 88 in just the fall. ... It went from mud to state-of-the-art grass.

We realize as people clean their homes out, they're moving all this mud and material out to the curb, where it's eventually going into the storm drain system. Every rain we get for the next six months or beyond will put more material into the lake.

We put 40,000 gallons of water on it the day before the race. It makes the mud like chocolate pudding.

We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It's very different from 'Downton' because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair - it's the other extreme of the look!

We're used to this. After all, it's just mud and water, easily cleaned.

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,

Water keeps hogs cool during the summer months, and the hogs use mud to help protect their skin from insects. Hogs root to eat, and rooting in muddy areas is much easier than rooting in dry areas.

We have lots of exposed mud flats, ... but we will be closing the dam to flood those flats and facilitate boating a little more for fall recreation.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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

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

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

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.

when i was younger i love to pick up mud and shove it in my brothers face he would get so mad at me he would chase me down and throw me in the mud and then we would have a mud fight

When you look at the volume -- I think in '95, when they had the last slide, they were talking about 600,000 tons of sand and mud coming down -- there's really nothing that can stop something of that magnitude. It's almost completely a sheer cliff.

We've just started living separate existences under the same roof. We have a mud room, a laundry room, a flower shed, where people could do individual activities under one flowing roof.

We wear respirators when we're in the houses. We've been taking mud out in wheelbarrows. You walk in a room and it just makes you want to throw up.

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

We're talking about moving mud from a river, straining toxins from it and either putting that mud back into the river or disposing of it properly. In the grand scheme of things, we're talking about relatively low-level technology.

The Oregonian (newspaper) picked up on that negative slant and that was very, very unfortunate. I also think a legitimate company that has a good track record was dragged through the mud for wanting to come to this community and provide jobs.

We've been stuck in the mud since April.

We saw the kids playing in mud and they had bats and were making mud pies out of them.

This situation is not good. The water is down, but there is still mud a foot deep, and animals are running around dehydrated and passing out.

We had quite a bit of mud and water flow down Ash Canyon here. It backed up pretty well at the intersection.

We walked out of the gate looking like we were the ones in the mud and they were a lot quicker than us, faster than us, and kept us on our heels.

Being an older horse, she dug herself deeper and deeper into the mud and ice.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

It was another really gutsy effort from our guys. We looked like we were stuck in the mud but we found a way.

The spectacle of a mayor and a governor throwing mud at each other while the city and the area were floundering was not a pretty one. That's another area where it's going to take some time and some historians to figure out whether he was let down by the government or not. On the other hand, his anger at those with a higher place on the hierarchy is an understandable one.

Roll up the windows. Or the mud will spray you.

The Mud Creek community has been very nice and welcoming. Very quickly, they treat you like a family. I feel like I'm part of it, and I've only been here for a couple of months.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.