Top 27 Toughened Quotes
#1. I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.
Dolly Parton
#2. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.
Jane Green
#3. I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
Ed Sheeran
#4. Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up.
Carlos Wallace
#5. Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.
Diablo Cody
#6. When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart?
Leif Enger
#7. Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
Jeffrey Toobin
#9. When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.
Marisa Miller
#10. He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.
J.K. Rowling
#11. Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
Marc Warren
#12. I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.
Gayle Forman
#13. Sylvie considered that children should be toughened up early, the better to take the blows in later life.
Kate Atkinson
#15. He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell.
S.D. Skye
#16. It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they did.
H.G.Wells
#17. The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.
Alexandre Dumas
#18. Uncomfortable.Lord. I've been doing the comfortable thing my whole life, it seems like. And what did it get me? I think it's about time I did something a little uncomfortable.
Louisa Edwards
#19. I sought the bird of bliss and she flew away, I sought my neighbor's good and bliss came my way
Anonymous
#21. Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.
Jane Yolen
#22. I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked.
Rob Sheffield
#23. A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.
Chanakya
#24. I said what do you mean by his country? A flag someone invented two hundred years ago? The Bench of Bishops arguing about divorce and the House of Commons shouting Ya at each other across the floor? Or do you mean the T.U.C. and British Railways and the Co-op?
Graham Greene
#25. In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
Charles B. Rangel
#26. Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children's Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their 140th homecoming in 2009 and met a number of train riders there); the New York Tenement Museum;
Christina Baker Kline
#27. I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.
Henry David Thoreau
