Scrubby Quotes

#1. The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

Jay Griffiths

#2. From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.

Melinda Blanchard

#3. For much of American history, the worst classes were seen as extrusions of the worst land: scrubby, barren, and swampy wasteland. Home ownership remains today the measure of social mobility.

Nancy Isenberg

#4. I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills from my lips in frothy discomposure. It splatters the pavement like a spray of blood.

Rebecca Clare Smith

#5. The tree that never had to fight
for sun and sky and air and light
but stood out in the open plain
and always got it share of rain,
never became a forest king
but lived and died a scrubby thing.
Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.

Douglas Malloch

#6. He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity.

Charles Dickens

#7. I'm not just a college professor. I'm the head of a department. I don't see myself fleeing an airborne toxic event. That's for people who live in mobile homes out in the scrubby parts of the county, where the fish hatcheries are.

Don DeLillo

#8. I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible.

Daphne Du Maurier

#9. Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Ernie Harwell

#10. I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Patrick DeWitt

#11. Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#12. Flowers reconnect us to our own beautiful and unique essence as human beings. They wake up our positive qualities so that we feel them and they begin to emanate from us, just as each flower radiates its own unique quality.

Katie Hess

#13. My mom and I are very close.

Lady Gaga

#14. I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.

Richard MacDonald

#15. If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.

Dave Ramsey