Mud Quotes
451 quotes by 389 authors
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Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on…
— Charlie Higson
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The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.
— Eoin Colfer
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
— Robert Graves
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Will remembered the two of them, running through the dark streets of London, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, seraph blades gleaming in their hands; hours…
— Cassandra Clare
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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
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For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was…
— Richard Siken
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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
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Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the…
— Pablo Neruda
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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
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Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started…
— Rick Riordan
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Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet,…
— Marisha Pessl
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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…
— Bernard Malamud
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Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
— Laozi
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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…
— Malcolm X
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In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely…
— Rajneesh
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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
— Laozi
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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.…
— Charles de Gaulle
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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,…
— M. Scott Peck
Who Wrote These Mud Quotes
389 authors contributed a total of 451 Mud Quotes, led by these top contributors: