Mud quotes
113 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
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"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."
"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"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."
"Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth."
"He who sling mud, lose ground."
"Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud."
"I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud."
"The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows."
"When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form."
"He who builds on the people, builds on the mud"
"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."
"Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving."
"I made all my generals out of mud."
"He who slings mud loses ground."
"The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us."
"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."
"I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."
"Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!"
"When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell."
"No mud can soil us but the mud we throw."
