Quotes About Sturdy

I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.

What the dev— er, deuce did you do that for? It hurt!" "Good," said the angel. "I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. On a sunny day, the sun's energy on a square acre of land or pond can equal 4500 horsepower. These horses heave in every direction, like slaves building pyramids, and fashion, from the bottom up, a new and sturdy world.

How did the cowardly disciples come by their sturdy faith after Jesus died? How did a man so ineffectual in this world, who had upset the dreams of his own disciples, come then to be divinized by these same disciples? These two questions forever entangle people who read the Bible, yet the biblical scholars, with their theories of form-criticism or of reductionism, hardly so much as allude to these questions.

Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)

The half-empty local roads inspired him to "gun" the engine of his sturdy but inflexible Swedish automobile

A receipt is as strong as a thatched roof.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

He was built like a very small supermarket: Compact; expensive if you crossed him.

very old people in Russia have a stamp upon them that I hope I can learn and never lose, a matter-of-fact resilience and sense of their place upon the earth that is very sturdy and reassuring

With the conviction came a store of assurance. He felt a quiet manhood, non-assertive but of sturdy and strong blood. He knew that he would no more quail before his guides wherever they should point. He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

He was about six-feet tall, built close to the ground,

It was the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, crafted by flawed but brilliant thinkers who reasoned their way to a system at once sturdy and capable of change. An America that could explain me.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

There were two laminated class chairs in front of most of the doors. The chairs looked sturdy and practical and about as comfortable as a tweed thong.

When Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador Car in 1957 its sturdy body, rounded contours and Mother Earth simplicity immediately bagged it a place in our collective consciousness.

He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.

He sported a wedding ring and a wristwatch that looked sturdy enough to flush down a toilet without losing time.

One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing.

ELIXIR Strings are bright and so sturdy. I'm absolutely in love with them.

naiads who liked to drown people, which meant she needed a sturdy

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

I'm a kinda strong person and kinda heavy.