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
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
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
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and… — Seneca the Younger 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
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once. — Susan Wiggs 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
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
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other… — Jim Bailey Copy Share Image
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are… — Russell Baker 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
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
