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I made all my generals out of mud. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. -- Ivan Turgenev
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. -- Beck
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it. -- Denzel Washington
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. -- Barry Goldwater
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. -- John le Carre
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. -- David Suzuki
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
Mud is the most poetical thing in the world. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. -- Honore de Balzac
A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig. -- Olaotan Fawehinmi
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. -- Charles Dudley Warner
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
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. -- Siegfried Sassoon
Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry. -- Alan Jay Lerner
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime! -- Rupert Brooke
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. -- Josh Ritter
The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet. -- Eoin Colfer
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity. -- Rupert Brooke
Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty? -- Jean Dubuffet
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It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy -- MaryJanice Davidson
Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky? -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.â? Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance. -- Eoin Colfer
We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious. -- Dave McPherson
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
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time. -- George R. R. Martin
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. -- e. e. cummings
He who slings mud generally loses ground. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Life is made up of marble and mud. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. -- Ross Perot
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. -- Orson Welles
You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. -- Teri Garr
Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud. -- Ramakrishna
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. -- John Madden
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. -- Jesse Ventura
The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly. -- Blake Shelton
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. -- George MacDonald
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -- Leo Burnett
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. -- Carl Sandburg
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. -- George Bernard Shaw
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. -- Joseph Conrad
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
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? -- Virginia Woolf
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now. -- Steve Sabol
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
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done? -- Bradley Whitford
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. -- Maya Angelou
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. -- Jose Marti
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. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. -- Charles Lyell
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
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. -- M.I.A.
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis. -- Sylvia Earle
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. -- Howard Rheingold
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. -- Miranda Hart
I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy. -- Nick Frost
I, too, saw God through mud -- Wilfred Owen
He who sling mud, lose ground. -- Confucius
What memories for mud to have. -- Kurt Vonnegut
He who slings mud loses ground. -- Gautama Buddha
I washed mud off of mud. -- Steven Wright
Even mud gives the illusion of depth. -- Marshall McLuhan
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There's no smoke without mud being flung around. -- Edwina Currie
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. -- Plautus
Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles? -- Laozi
Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Those who want rain, must also accept the mud. -- Anonymous
The work of the world is common as mud. -- Marge Piercy
A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop. -- Ed Eyestone
Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful -- Thomas M. Disch
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. -- James Russell Lowell
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. -- Joseph Conrad
He who builds on the people, builds on the mud -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket. -- Stephen Richards
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out. -- Tiberius
Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out. -- Robert Graves
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister. -- Philippa Gregory
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud. -- James Kavanaugh
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud. -- Jimmy Cannon
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. -- Eugene Delacroix
I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning. -- Lance Loud
You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are. -- Andy Irons
Women are a lot like ducks-they don't like mud on their butts. -- Phil Robertson
I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES! -- Kane
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. -- Bernard Malamud
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud. -- Mary Engelbreit
How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it? -- RZA
Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear. -- James Frey
Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands. -- Joseph Parker
Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. -- Carlos Santana
One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. -- Diane Arbus
God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt. -- Leo Buscaglia
Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of. -- Rajneesh
A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud. -- Hugh Prather
So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road. -- Sharon Creech
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud. -- George Jean Nathan
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty. -- Dorothy Parker
Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. -- Lorine Niedecker
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars. -- Oscar Wilde
Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment -- George Santayana
I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights. -- Stacy Dragila
We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly. -- Shana Abe
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Never blame others for tracking in mud, until you have checked your own feet. -- Wes Fesler
People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'. -- Gordon Taylor
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war. -- Winston Churchill
If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that. -- Ice Cube
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things. -- Walter J. Turner

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