Top 10 Sturdy Quotes - Quoted Daily

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

Weed, Joy, Sturdy

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

Stories, Shelter, Sturdy

Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.17, Vintage

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Scotland, Doe, Sturdy

'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Ostig in Sky'

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Honesty, Habit, Sturdy

Norman Mailer (2007). “The Castle in the Forest”

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

Love Is, Plant, Sturdy

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Space, Weight, Sturdy

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Heart, Ideas, Sturdy

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.63, Broadview Press

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

Heart, Sturdy, Organs

Susan Wiggs (2008). “Just Breathe”, p.467, MIRA

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

Rocks, Pounds, Sturdy

John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

Sturdy, Adversaries

Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.474

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