Best Muddy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Going in the company of negative people is just like having thick muddy soil underfoot... They will only draw you back if you don't tear them off! Move out of your current disposal with the intention of getting to your true destination!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said "Shake the soil off your sandals"! What are you waiting for? Shake it off!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“What is it about men? We see something fresh and pure--when the snow falls, we can't help it. We rush for our boots and go tromping about until it's brown and muddy.”

Men Snow Muddy

Book:Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“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.”

Time Water Long Time Mud Muddy Meditate Settle Regularly Practiced

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”

World Firsts Littles Play Water My Own Saws First Time Inspired Guitar Staying My Sister Amusement Jimmy Roger Muddy

Author:Otis Rush

“That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.”

Way Sound Records Mississippi Muddy Delta Old Records Mississippi Delta

Author:Muddy Waters

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

Wells Play Wanted Left Hurt Player Musician Baseball Balls Fingers Preacher Baseball Player Muddy

Author:Muddy Waters

“The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.”

May Home Would Be Poor Feet Cost Shoes Damn Ashamed Navy Taxpayers Wipe Muddy Doormat

Author:William Proxmire

“The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.”

Mind Self Earth Tears Universal Misery Chaos Drunk Ruins Self Respect Hats Owners Hopeless Touching Sober Drunkenness Plugs Muddy

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

Mean Found Water Holes Bitter Pool Commodity Courtesy Liquid Muddy Creeks

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.”

Needs Looks Said Play Used Water Tape Look At Me Rehearsal Muddy

Author:Buddy Guy

“One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.”

Writing States Earth Certain Religious Sun Example Taught Spring Bible Errors Ancient Statements Absurd Exception Flats Elephants Shaking Muhammad Earthquakes Accuracy Muddy Vedas

Author:Charlie Campbell

“The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.”

People Long Law Night Water Drink Spring Injustice Awe Innate Muddy

Book:The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

Source: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

“I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.”

Trying Play Hands Water Hours Rocks Picks Guitar Track Rock N Roll Electric Back Again Muddy Electric Guitar

Author:Keith Richards

“Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.”

Feelings Bigs Fool Paper Muddy Old Feelings

Author:Pete Seeger

“It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.”

Ifs Should Trying Water Clear Useless Dirt Muddy

Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.”

Poor Taught Proud Wine Beer Bliss Fancy Ecstasy Steers Muddy Ale

Author:George Crabbe

“The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.”

Discovery Transformation Paint Oil Brilliant Mood Painter Unexpected Muddy

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.”

May Knowing Wine Beer Muddy Gin

Book:Felix Holt, The Radical

Source: Felix Holt, The Radical

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.”

Should Wells Water Too Much Objects Depends Luck Workers Bottom Aids Nevertheless Good Luck Stirring Muddy Submerged

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.”

People Emotional Drug Dresses Necks Sunshine Boots Cried Email Gigs Glamorous Muddy Blazing Turquoise

Author:KT Tunstall

“Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.”

Next Stuff Produce Color Mud Mixing Muddy Complement Rendering

Author:Simmie Knox

“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”

Water Sweet Spring Fruit Seeds Bitter Muddy Sweet Fruit

Author:Jose Rizal

“A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.”

Should Film Stars Talent Car Creating Mass Fellows Edges Glorious Great Men Los Angeles Unfortunate Catastrophe Mud Slides Spectacular Cemetery Unstable Muddy Canyons Film Stars

Author:Bill Mollison

“My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.”

Water My Own Listening Grew Grew Up Musical Miles Backgrounds Composition Rama Muddy Coltrane

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.”

World Kind Littles Black Water Musician Raised Chuck Berries Muddy Soulful Hopkins Ultras Howlin Wolf

Author:Ted Nugent

“Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.”

Cents Sunrise Find Me Sandwiches Muddy

Author:Muddy Waters

“All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.”

People Made Feelings Water Records Standing Rivers Singers Really Great Mississippi Louisiana Muddy Memphis Mississippi River Howlin Wolf

Author:John Fogerty

“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.”

Ifs Heart Spirit Rich Wind Fit Taste Criticism Communicate Excellent Generous Champagne Sour Muddy Sparkling Vapid Colic

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.”

Wells Terrible Down And Awful Mud Terrible Things Bleeding Muddy Rasputin

Author:Jean Rhys

“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

Water Bottom Display Shallow Muddy Shallow Water

Author:Alphonse Karr

“No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.”

Children Jobs Metaphor Nurture Mock Muddy

Book:Begin Again: Collected Poems

Source: Begin Again: Collected Poems

“When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.”

Men Way Writing Said Sometimes Seems Bits Sound Water White Muddy Cobain Patronizing

Author:Shingai Shoniwa

“All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.”

Mind Literature Language Media Dogma Muddy

Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)”

World Firsts Philosophy Reality Form Perfect Pure Essence Sorry Including Lovely Planes Pope Plato Mud Transcendent Muddy

Author:N.D. Wilson

“It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.”

Firsts Doe Made Names Water Boys Written Sick Blue Guitar Pathetic Muddy Keith Howlin Wolf

Author:Keith Richards

“One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.”

School Nations Community Memories United Behinds Tree Walking Mountain Rain My Family Burning Feds Village United Nations Muddy

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.”

Ifs Grows Talking Growing Up Folks Muddy

Book:Turtle in Paradise

Source: Turtle in Paradise

“You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.”

Mind Character Body Interesting Clear Training Weed Solitary Mind And Body Crystals Never Change Muddy Interesting Characters

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.”

Littles Has Beens Made Sea Feet Rivers Forgotten Track Uncles Rapids Margins Muddy Damp Deep Sea Uncle Sam Bayou

Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.”

Mind Sky Spring Rivers Mud Muddy Snarling

Author:Wallace Stevens

“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.”

World Want Dies Water Sun Flower Lessons Spring Roots Essence Raises Mortals Soil Delicate I Want You Perfume Petals Muddy Elementals Lotuses

Author:Colleen Houck

“Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.”

Grows Source Pure Rivers Fortune Muddy

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.”

Water Son Kings Daughter Adopted Muddy Son And Daughter

Author:Robert Cray

“You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.”

Littles Running Water Boys Little Boys Muddy

Author:Shannon O'Brien

“I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.”

Men War Age Dies Dark Practice Raised Medical Accepted Wounds Teeth Civil War Knives Boots Sole Drs Dark Ages Surgeons Muddy

Author:Paul Douglas

“There are so many girls out there that I don't have to work with and who aren't married or have boyfriends. There's plenty of people out there, so you don't have to mix work and pleasure. It gets muddy.”

People Girl Pleasure Married Plenty Muddy

Author:Bryan Greenberg

“During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.”

Littles Left Water Brain Consciousness Pure Bottom Glasses Muddy

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.”

Stills Lying Water Clear Mystery Seeds Perceive Streams Stillness Muddy

Author:Laozi

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