“A sturdy hold, but I think there's something up with the material.” — Pete Sortwell Copy Share Image
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“We crossed a small but sturdy wooden bridge a little later, but no trolls were taking tolls.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same… — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant,… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup… — Cicely Mary Barker Copy Share Image
Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. — John Swartzwelder Copy Share Image
The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs. — Pimp C Copy Share Image
Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die. — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on. — Carolyn Rodgers Copy Share Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
