Mud House Quotes

#1. Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.

Oscar Wilde

#2. They had a house there below Kelsha, one of the old mud-walled jobs, that has long disappeared back into its garden of fuchsia and orange lilies that the mother herself had planted in her first days of marriage, as women do in their gardens, all full of hope.

Sebastian Barry

#3. If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Alice Walker

#4. Every man ought to plant a tree.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#6. In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old country
mud and boards,
Poverty,
The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

Louis Simpson

#7. A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.

Jurgen Moltmann

#8. The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

Herbert Hoover