Grit Quote by Alice McDermott Download Open image ““She could feel the crunch of city grit between her back teeth.”” — Alice McDermott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grit
“There’s something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn’t be sexy.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
“I ground my teeth as I bit back words I knew would hurt. That was the danger with knowing and loving others. You always… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“She has a way of fixing you with a look that seems to stab clear through to the bone, and always makes me feel… — Anna Elliott 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
“Something kind of knotted in my stomach. I guessed it was a late batch of nerves. “She” — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“a passionate commitment to a single mission and an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission. She decided she needed to name this quality, and… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to New Orleans, but inside she felt a yearning to shove her hands… — Sarah Rae Copy Share Image
“...she feels her stomach turn choppy, whitecaps in her stomach.” — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Some vestige of his race or of his sex made him think, whenever he looked out across the ocean: As it was before me… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“John Keane pressed his chest to the steering wheel as he put the key in the ignition, taking a deep breath as he did,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“The fourth contraction seized her and suddenly she was perspiring. She heard herself cry out and then she heard the children’s voices like sparks… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Not a soul,” Mary Keane said to her husband, the wind lifting her words, tossing them gently back over her shoulder, the way it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“There wasn’t a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Mr. Persichetti knew that six weeks before its time and with a good thirty-minute ride to the hospital once the ambulance came (would it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Londoners are really good at dealing with any crap that's thrown at them. We hunker down, we grit our teeth and we get on… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
“The grits were lumpy, but the flavor was incredible: the garlic and onion powder, the cayenne's heat lingering after every bite, the creamy tang… — Shauna Robinson Copy Share Image
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
