There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.
Isabella Bird
WorkWaterFoodWealthPossibleMud
I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte
MudOutGeneralsMade
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg
MeEagleSoarMudHippopotamus
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou
AloneIndependentWillMudFollow
You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.
Solomon Burke
IntegrityYourselfYouClassMud
I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.
Cornelia Parker
ChildBuildingTreesMudOutsideUp
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
Nikos Kazantzakis
SoulNothingMudHumanCertainty
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.
Howard Rheingold
TimePeopleWineSheepBrickMud
We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
Butch Trucks
GreatGrowGardenVegetablesMud
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana
GoldDevilMudLikeSeparates
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
LifeMudUpMarbleMade
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
WarLookMudMonthVietnamMade
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre
WritingWalkingYouPieStreetMud
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot
PoliticsWarRulesWrestlingMud
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
Brian Clough
WomenMudLikeFeminineSliding
Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
GameToughMudEatPrettyStuff
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.
Gisele Bundchen
GodTimeLookingFaceThoughtMud
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf
PassionMeBrainWhyMy OwnMud
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai Stevenson I
MudGroundWhoHeLosesGenerally
I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
Lance Loud
MorningMudBeenFoundHad
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden
DayTeamBad DayYouBadMud
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
Rousas John Rushdoony
SmallNeverMudUniversityOnlyHut
My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
Brie Larson
FunActingBarbieMudFirstOver
It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.
Morning Star
WomenPeopleMudDestroyedHearts
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