Best Mud Pies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For all these stars, nothing is new. They’ve seen all kinds of wars and miracles, too. They know the messengers with their holy books will smile and wash their hands in blood. They know the politicians with their good looks will make the poor eat pies of mud. They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed. They’ve seen the trees and the seas emptied. Yet, you won’t hear their sneers when a man arrives and, having experienced a number of years, proclaims: 'I have lived!' Because nothing is new under these stars: the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true, the families, the friends, none of it is new. All of it—even the me and you.”

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.”

Giving Wells May Children Theory Perfection Delight Enjoyment Pie Unlimited Mud Amusement Imaginative Dolls Rags Luxurious Mud Pies

Author:Ada Leverson

“One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.”

Art Use Fun Half Screens Combination Tone Colour Print Pie Mud Ink Transparent Subtlety Mud Pies

Author:Ralph Steadman

“Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.”

Knows Life Littles Stills Bigs Kids Faces Sex Walks Hair Birth Bunch Dust Mess Live Life Dirty Glorious Pie Mud Worms Little Kid Ponds Cleaners Slapping Dust To Dust Mud Pies

Author:Andrew Schneider

“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”

Trying Firsts Clear First Time Paint Oil Boxing Accurate Pie Mud Gloves Boxing Gloves Mud Pies

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.”

Giving Dream Universe Evil Force Alive Building Giving Up Awake Good And Evil Pie Mud Our Dreams Mud Pies

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.”

Might Night Order Three Pieces Sweet Healthy Husband Fruit Eight Nine Brown My Husband Chocolate Cake Pie Mud Rice Noon Tofu Mud Pies

Author:Sara Blakely

“They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.”

Today Teach College Majors University Pie Mud Mud Pies

Author:Orson Welles

“You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.”

Use Magic Wind Empty Pie Mud Delicious Wizards Mud Pies

Author:Alexandra Bracken

“Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.”

Writing Streets Walking Dust Pie Be Creative Mud Deserted Mud Pies

Author:John le Carre

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

Source: Weight of Glory

“American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.”

Trying Made Self Sex Study Feminism Theory Pity Noses Pie Mud Kate Self Pity Sexist Poisonous Mud Pies

Author:Camille Paglia

“The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

Firsts Long Pure Instinct Dirty Purity Pie Mud Naughty Oats Mud Pies

Book:My Summer in a Garden

Source: My Summer in a Garden

“From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.”

Firsts I Can Would Be Wanted Fall Brother Red Rain My Brother Chickens Ducks Recalls Pie Florida Mud Brothers And Sisters Clay Rain Falling Mud Pies

Author:Augusta Savage

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”

Seems Desire Strong Lord Weak Our Lord Great Divorce Half Hearted Mud Pies Mud Puddles Desire For God

Book:Weight of Glory

Source: Weight of Glory

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.”

Joy Sex Half Christianity Drink Creatures Ambition Infinite Hearted Great Divorce Half Hearted Mud Pies Mud Puddles Desire For God

Book:Weight of Glory

Source: Weight of Glory