“The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.” — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women. — Erk Russell Copy Share Image
If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“Discovering dance and its power to heal my soul played a key role in my survival.” — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em. — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
“But talent without grit is just potential. Talent plus grit is unstoppable.” — Ben Bergeron Copy Share Image
“I've always tried to face life like an oyster does--when given grit, give back a pearl. Ted Miller Brogden” — Ted Miller Brogden Copy Share Image
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“Grits Pearl of Wisdom #31: Grits can admit their mistakes--and we all make some bad ones--but we never accept defeat. ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
If you represent your country and millions of people are watching, it comes through a lot of grit and hard work. — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
“The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.” — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth… — Samuel Park Copy Share Image
The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says… — James Redford Copy Share Image
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make… Usually one's cooking is better… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I spoke to my parents and my agent a year before Rio. I was like: 'I don't want to do this. I… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
“With God, grit, and humility, I don’t just solve my problems, I create paths for others.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.” — Bethany Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
“To them I was first a Black, then a Black from another country, and then a person.” — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
With wisdom and grit, my mom was able to lift me and my family to a higher rung on the economic ladder. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
“All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
