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Mud Quotes

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“Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

J.K. Rowling
“The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud out of the path.
'We were just talking about your friend Hagrid,'
Malfoy said to Ron. 'Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. D'you think he'll cry when they cut off his hippogriff's—'
SPLAT.
Malfoy's head jerked back as the mud hit him; his silverblond hair was suddenly dripping in muck.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Lorine Niedecker
“I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.”
Lorine Niedecker

Joyce Cary
“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”
Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

“Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.
Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.”
Suzy Kassem

C.S. Lewis
“She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful.”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

Vivian Swift
“POOR MARCH
It is the HOMELIEST month of the year. Most of it is MUD, Every Imaginable Form of MUD, and what isn't MUD in March is ugly late-season SNOW falling onto the ground in filthy muddy heaps that look like PILES of DIRTY LAUNDRY.”
Vivian Swift, When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put

Molly Harper
“And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair.
Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen."
"Maybe they'll get muddy," Dick said. "Please, Lord, let them get muddy.”
Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Transformation is not accomplished by tentative wading at the edge”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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

Prem Jagyasi
“Just as it takes time for the mud in muddy water to settle, meditation only yields fruit if it is practiced regularly for a long time.”
Dr Prem Jagyasi

Maureen F. McHugh
“It was spring, the barren time in March when you cannot be sure if it is really warner, but you are so desperate for change that you tell yourself the mud at the edge of the sidewalk is different than winter mud and you are sure that the smell of we soil has suddenly a bit of the scent of summer rains, of grass and drowned earthworms. And it has, because it is spring and inside the ground something is stirring.”
Maureen F. McHugh

“We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we reached the boat, our clothes were clinging to our flesh and stained with the bloody remains of mosquitoes.”
Mia Kirshner, I Live Here

Mladen Đorđević
“Eagles do not live alongside with crows. Neither they fly in flocks, nor live in muds.”
Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

J.K. Rowling
“Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flowerbeds turned into muddy streams and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. Oliver Wood's enthusiasm for regular training sessions, however, was not dampened, which was why Harry was to be found, late one stormy Saturday afternoon a few days before Hallowe'en, returning to the Gryffindor Tower, drenched to the skin and splattered with mud.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Dave Holderread
“Keeping ducks locked up in yards covered with deep mud and stagnant water holes is an invitation to trouble.”
Dave Holderread, Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks: Breeds, Care, Health
tags: ducks, mud

Holly Black
“Clouds of mosquitoes and gnats blow through the hot, wet air of the marsh where the Thistlewitch lives. My boots sink into the gluey mud. The trees are draped heavily in creeper and poisonous trumpet vine, swaths of it blocking the path. In the brown water, things move.”
Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Diamonds are always found in mud, thus if you want to shine like a diamond, you should start brushing off the muds in your life.”
Genereux Philip

“I draw from the well what I like. The well has both mud and water.”
Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Tears of joy, I can handle.
Tears of sadness, I can handle.
Tears of sorrows, I can handle.
But, tears of nature, it’s the most beautiful feel that anyone can ever get. The feel you get while walking in the rain and the smell of mud as added essence, this beautiful feel is what they call love. Then, I’m in love.
I call it “Tears of Love”.”
Suresh Rao (Founder of rollnreel.com)

Ehsan Sehgal
“One has to get down in the muddy place for helping a falling person in the mud; it reflects an incredible devotion way and feeling that shower humanity with fragrance and dress the human with flowers.”
Ehsan Sehgal
tags: mud

G.K. Chesterton
“If Tolstoy cannot admire marriage, at least he is healthy enough to admire mud”
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

Samuel Beckett
“no if he remembers how he lived no always lived like that yes flat on his belly in the mud yes in the dark yes with his sack yes”
Samuel Beckett, How It Is
tags: belly, mud, sack

Mehmet Murat ildan
“While looking at the world, you can see the flowers and the mud! See neither just the flowers nor just the mud! See comedy and tragedy, beauty and ugliness, joy and sadness at the same time, because the world is a place where good and evil, light and darkness, peace and terror coexist!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Stephen  Rice
“Mud, gold and lies. That’s all you get in Branera.”
Stephen Rice, A Handful of Souls

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
EE cummings

Ekta Kumar
“Soft, creamy mud clings to my hands. It creeps into my skin and now flows with my blood. How can I ever be rid of it.”
Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

Agatha Christie
“You should come along here after it's rained! The skids are glorious. Most of the time one's going sideways.”
Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
tags: mud

“Fallen glamor lives in grandma’s jewelry box.
I imagine myself as a great destructive force,
Wrenching diamonds and sapphires from their
sockets
And unloosing them to ride the wind.
The gems stare back at me.
Cold cool-toned stars of the night sky,
Blind to the world above.”
Jessica Rohrbaugh, Temple of Lush: Poems & Prose

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