Hardscrabble Quotes

#1. But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

Meghan Daum

#2. We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

Rita Mae Brown

#3. Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

Clive Sinclair

#4. If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

Meghan Daum

#5. I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Dennis Miller

#6. Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.

Mitt Romney

#7. The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

#8. Do what is right. Not what you like.

Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

#9. Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the "right side" of the war, ever heard - let alone answered?

Kristina McMorris

#10. Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

Frederick Douglass

#11. Are you about finished?" Hazel deadpanned. She looked at me. "He started his period this morning.

Jamie McGuire

#12. It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Akira Kurosawa

#13. But it's compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

Kristen Bell

#14. It's the narcissist's way of maintaining control of the twisted situation he conducted in his environment.
Narcissists thrive when attempting to make people crazy. It's called psychological warfare.

V. Theia

#15. I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

Mako

#16. The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

William Shakespeare

#17. Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Richard Barnfield