If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
We at the Bureau have the most exciting and satisfying jobs in the world. In a society that stresses individual achievement -… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults,… — Shelley Hennig Copy Share Image
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“A man can't pull himself up by his own bootstraps no matter how hard he tries, Cort had lectured when Roland, Cuthbert,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so… — Tom of Finland Copy Share Image
Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of moments that should have taken me out. But I'm always able to pull myself up by my… — Lainey Wilson Copy Share Image
They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. — Andrew Mitchell Copy Share Image
