About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
Frank Yerby

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Jesse Ventura

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
Johnny Rivers

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
Lance Loud

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
Brian Clough

I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
John Hawkes

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Joe Scarborough

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
Robin Day

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
Peter Hook

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.
Delia Smith

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.
Morning Star

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne