Top 33 Stalwart Quotes
#1. there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are of what is best in them
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#3. If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.
Tim Howard
#4. I am here to tell you
We are all of us just as mighty as planets - and you too,
We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare
But you might have to sleep on the floor.
Catherynne M Valente
#5. Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object - such as a statue in the park - was struggling to keep itself together.
Heather O'Neill
#6. The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell
#7. The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of his car when driving, or else the picture of that stalwart body, now lying motionless. Knowing meant that: a living warmth, and a picture of death.
Albert Camus
#8. The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#9. After all, my young Dodger, what exactly are you? A stalwart young man, plucky and brave and apparently without fear? Or, possibly, I suggest, a street urchin with a surfeit of animal cunning and the luck of Beelzebub himself.
Terry Pratchett
#10. The past doesn't exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren't changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
Martha Beck
#11. Stalwart Zeno seemed oblivious, that faith in his daughter being alive after more than forty days did not compute with faith that Brett Kincaid would soon be arrested for a crime involving his daughter.
Joyce Carol Oates
#12. I want that at my funeral," said Pam. "I want to be carried out on the shoulders of six stalwart young men. Preferably in loincloths.
Leslie Meier
#13. Lord Frederick had been a stalwart member of the Montagne court since at least the time of my grandfather; this I knew. Even more, he had the marvellous ability to pull peppermint drops from my ears, which used to entertain me for hours.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#14. It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#15. You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.
Bill Engvall
#16. Useless the Elder was looking at me in amusement. "Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said.
Megan Whalen Turner
#17. Even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under
Bram Stoker
#18. Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
Mason Cooley
#19. The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.
Diane Ravitch
#20. I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality
Clifford Sifton
#21. Some came to help satisfy the various lusts of what Mark Twain called "a wild, free, disorderly, grotesque society! Men - only swarming hosts of stalwart men - nothing juvenile, nothing feminine visible anywhere.
Tom Cole
#22. Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Taylor Caldwell
#23. Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger
Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,
And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes
To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs
And birds of prey.
Homer
#24. Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.
Herbert J. Muller
#25. Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood.
David W. Mack
#26. Truth must be stalwart, Loyalty absolute, Generosity unstinting, while Appearance and Convention were children of the giant Hyprocrisy and must be put to flight.
Marilynne Robinson
#27. Language changes over time. Meaning twists. Mistakes compound with each transcribing. Even those stalwart sentinels of perfection - numbers - can, in a single careless moment, be profoundly altered.
Steven Erikson
#28. Crawford saw that in this place Starling was heir to the granny women, to the wise women, the herb healers, the stalwart country women who have always done the needful, who keep the watch and when the watch is over, wash and dress the country dead.
Thomas Harris
#29. I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.
Eric Abetz
#30. You are strong and you have a stalwart heart. But you need to learn that those two things alone cannot save everything.
Takatoshi Shiozawa
#31. Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
Ann Coulter
#32. Young people . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
Marvin J. Ashton
#33. Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
Dan Abnett