Sturdy Quotes - Page 2

• I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

  John Swartzwelder

  Rocks, Pounds, Muscles

  John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.

  Nick Hornby

  Cat, Doors, Healthy

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.17, Penguin UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Men, Odds

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

  Joseph Heller

  Determination, Accomplishment, Rambling

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Roots, Trials

  4 Copy quote

• Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Ideas, Egotism

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.63, Broadview Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversaries

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.474

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
  Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
  And go along with you ere you lose sight
  Of what you came for and become like me,
  
  Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
  How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
  On through the watching for that early birth
  When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
  
  The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
  Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  Robert Frost

  Weed, Spring, Passion

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

  Ezra Pound

  Wall, Emotional, Garden

  'The Garden' (1916)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

  Criss Jami

  True Love, Desire, Degrees

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.69, Criss Jami

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

  Diana L. Eck

  Freedom Of Religion, Structure, Rudders

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Thinking, Healthy, Disease

  12 Copy quote

• The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Self, Hands

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Space, Weight, Shoulders

  5 Copy quote

• The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Overwhelmed

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.14, Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Mother, Males, Study

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  Russell Baker

  Men, People, Life Is

  "So This Is Depravity and Other Observations". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. Im a keen walker, and I love Suffolks big skies.

  Diana Quick

  Running, Dog, Beach

  4 Copy quote

• True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
  False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Mind, Argument

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.247

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

  Norman Mailer

  Honesty, Habit, Prevarication

  Norman Mailer (2007). “The Castle in the Forest”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

  Francis Atterbury

  Firsts, Steps, Sin

  8 Copy quote

• But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?

  Louise Bogan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?

  Gail Mazur

  Mother, Children, Father

  Gail Mazur (1995). “The Common”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source