We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch
Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
He who builds on the people, builds on the mud
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
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
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.
Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.
You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.