Tug Quotes

90 Tug quotes by 76 unique authors

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. — George S. Patton
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on… — Shel Silverstein
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to… — Barbara Kingsolver
Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry… — Lisa Ann Sandell
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in… — Jonathan Kozol
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose… — Khaled Hosseini
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still. — Aldous Huxley
Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely… — Robert Graves
Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and… — John Flanagan
Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying. — John Flanagan
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you… — Michael Parenti
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to… — Jodi Picoult
Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard… — John Flanagan
Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make four… — John Flanagan
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh… — Vera Nazarian
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and… — Kelly Corrigan
When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still… — Kazuo Ishiguro
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnakeâ€”not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around… — Larry McMurtry
He leaned back for a moment to tug her shirt down her arms, with the same wicked, lovley smile that had first stolen her breath… — Melissa Marr
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, — Deborah Harkness

Who Wrote These Tug Quotes

76 authors contributed a total of 90 Tug Quotes, led by these top contributors: