Top 53 Graft Quotes
#1. Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
Benigno Aquino III
#2. My father always said that you cannot graft a culture of science and engineering onto an Iron Age society. And so it's proving.' Bisesa studied him. 'You'll have to tell me about your father.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
Barry Unsworth
#4. We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.
Colin Cooper
#6. It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.
Janet Fitch
#7. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into a new tongue.
Walt Whitman
#8. The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
Lincoln Steffens
#9. When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
Idries Shah
#10. I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.
Bertie Ahern
#11. he was bitten in the groin by a Belgian shepherd trainee named Kong, and he required three operations, culminating in a scrotal graft from a Brahma steer.
Carl Hiaasen
#12. The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from the staple after five minutes. The graft wouldn't take.
Colson Whitehead
#13. Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses
Chris Murray
#14. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.
Steve Forbes
#15. Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Mark Twain
#16. Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
Mark-Anthony Turnage
#17. Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.
Gordon Ramsay
#18. Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.
Loretta Lynch
#19. It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.
John Tyler
#20. Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
Franklin P. Adams
#21. No doubt, what with all that graft and corruption filling your schedule.
Rob Thomas
#22. Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.
Lincoln Steffens
#23. Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Mark Ruffalo
#24. Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.
Johnny Rich
#25. Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain
All, all the stretch of these great green states
And make America again!
Langston Hughes
#26. Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#27. Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
Harry Crosby
#28. The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
Tariq Ali
#29. In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
#30. Ladies, a second piece of advice
do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.
Victor Hugo
#31. I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
Joe Murray
#32. Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
Howard Gardner
#33. You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
George Osborne
#34. Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.
Dean Ornish
#36. I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.
Joan Miro
#37. As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils
Wendy Doniger
#38. Painting it was hard graft ... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#39. IT WAS CUSTOMARY in the South for outside observers to interpret events in terms of ideology (usually racial ideology) and for local observers to interpret the same events in terms of money (usually graft).
Calvin Trillin
#40. The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Agnes Repplier
#41. Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#42. It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
David Walton
#43. The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
Mark Twain
#44. Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.
Peter Senge
#45. There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.
Joe Cocker
#46. The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Philip Wylie
#47. I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux
#48. The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
James Dyson
#49. I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
Tariq Ali
#51. GENES
G raft of yourself
E endowment
N ew generation
E volution
S urvival
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#53. Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ?
Aboagye Williamson De-graft
