“If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.” IfsStillsWisdomFallHeavenRemainsValuableDustIslamicMudGemsValueless Author:Saadi
“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.” WayLooksLongHas BeensStillsCountryLeftBlackPresidentFeetRepublicanMovedImprovementStuckTreatedPresident ObamaMudLong WayRight DirectionLong Way To Go Author:Hank Aaron
“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.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsEarthFacesWaterCommonSunMysteryTreeGreenShiningFingersDepthLakesQuartersMudLimbsSkeletonsMuddySun ShinesSlimeCypressesCypress Trees Author:Irvin S. Cobb