Mud Quotes

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.'

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

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

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

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud.

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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.

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

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.

I, too, saw God through mud

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

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

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

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

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

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

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

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

Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.

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

He who sling mud, lose ground.

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

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

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.

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.

The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

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

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

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 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.

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.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.